Circle Dock is an open source application launcher Dock for windows. This is what you would get in Windows 7 in future. As the name says  It allows you to launch your programs from a circular dock, as shown in the image. The advantage you get is all your shortcuts are easily accessible and manageable. Thus no more you need to go into program menu and find it.

Circular Dock Like Windows 7

The application has a very simple interface, which is very easily customizable as per your needs and taste. Depending upon frequently accessed set of programs, folders and shortcuts you can setup the dock for you.The Dock sites in the middle of desktop but normally invisible. Just click on the center and it will be availble for you to use.

Features of circle Dock

• To be able to launch particular program, folder or shortcut, simply drag and drop on the Circular Dock.
• Rotation of Dock is possible with mouse wheel, or arrow keys on keyboard.
• Clicking on the center button (the button with blue feather in the image above), allows to access the start menu (this feature needs to be enabled, its turned off by default).
• Dock is customizable in sense of size and icon as well.
• Right click on Dock allows you to have Settings and other menus as well, Settings allow you to set several other customizations.
• Right click on any item on Dock allows you to have other menus same as right click on any other windows item.
• Includes French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, and Dutch language files.

Here is a small Video which you can enjoy.

Circle Dock works fine with Windows XP/Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only .Net Framework 2.0 or above, as such no other requirements are given on the site, but I tried it on a computer with 256 Mb ram and Pentium 4, 1.80 GHz processor, and the smoothness of Circle Dock was affected big time, I think it would be working swiftly on computers with 512Mb RAM or above. Requires no installation, simply download and unzip to start using it.

Try it, using Circle Dock is like adding another spice to your computing, do share with us how you feel about it.