It's new. Probably a new option so you can avoid the refund monitor appearing at the top, but my clients love watching the monitor, unless it turns red, then, no so much fun for them.
Yeah, not quite sure why they felt they needed to add a feature that already existed. I have the top one turned off (View; Refund Monitor). Looks like you can also turn off the bottom one but then you lose the form name/field status (View; Status Bar).
