Illustrator 16.1.1 CS 6 Bug:  Document Window  "snap" to Win 7 taskbar

The same thing that was happening with Photoshop (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4723811) is now happening in Illustrator after the most-recent update.
Please patch!
Thank you

Noel Carboni wrote:
Try the Autohide setting of the Taskbar for a while.  You'll find it grows on you.  I have been using that setting for years now.
Noel everyone have their own preferences the more I use tabbed editing the more I dislike it the same with Windows auto hide task bar.  With CS6 I'm forced to use Tabbed Editing for too many thing are broken in CS6 if you prefer floating windows. Its so bad I actually stop testing CS6 which I paid for because Adobe told me the bug I reported in CS5 was fixed.  That was not correct that bug is still there. Additionally Adobe has introduced additionally bugs in the Action Player and in Photoshop Scripting the default Preference for interpolation was not added to scripting and causes errors.  Adobe also added some lame new features with poor design and implementation like recording brush strokes.  I thought CS5 was a bad release CS6 has surpassed it for sure.  I'm waiting for a fix to come out for now CS3 is the way to go. 
Adobe whatever happened to regression testing before releasing a new version.   Have you replaced the expense hoping users doing beta testing will do that for you. I wait for new releases for I do not want to be a beta tester.   IMO your CS6 release is a beta you made us pay for.

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