Posted by David in I was randomly looking up a date on the calendar using Windows 7 Beta today and accidentally discovered a new feature! Turns out this feature is also in Vista but I guess I never noticed in the past two years of using Vista. I’m sure many of you know about it but I just thought that it was worth sharing.
In Vista, if you click on the clock in the bottom right corner of the task bar, then a little calendar widget pops up with a cool analog clock on it like so:
What I realized is that if you click on the Month name it will “zoom out” the scope of the calendar. So if you click on where it says “March, 2009″ you will end up with a month view of the year instead:
You can keep clicking on the text between the arrows and it will continue to zoom out until you have reached a point where it shows just sets of years. Pretty cool little feature in my opinion! I used to just click the little arrows a number of times to get to next year and now I know to “zoom out” the scope of the calendar in order to get to next year. I feel a little stupid for not noticing the feature before whatever. I’ll get over the stupid feeling quickly.
