Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according to Microsoft.
  • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
    571·
    3 days ago

    building the taskbar from scratch meant that they had to cherry-pick things to put into the feature list first, and the ability to move the taskbar didn’t make the cut, for several reasons that Microsoft values.

    Translation: Nobody really knows (or wants to take the blame), we probably just forgot to put on the feature list. Anyway, I’ll just use the usual vague weasel-words that don’t really mean anything.

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      "Window’s is built on many layers of shit and we dont know what will or won’t break things.

      Also co pilot was really expensive"

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      This is written as if a taskbar were a complex piece of software. It has to display a window list, a start button, a few shortcuts and a tray, right?

      Nothing is trivial, but they are a company that can buy some nation-states with their citizens as slaves. Surely they can buy that much labor.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        This is written as if a taskbar were a complex piece of software.

        Google for stories about how it is configured or built. The old taskbar was endlessly complex.