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Hoping the myriad of public/private services I rely upon will have dropped the "Internet Explorer 11/Windows" requirement that keeps a single Windows PC lingering on my home network.
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> Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. With their support schedule, you'll probably have to sooner than you think, if you need to keep using Windows.
>Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 on October 14th, 2025 I'm optimistic that by 2025 either Microsoft or a third party have developed a way to put the taskbar back at the top. It's apparently possible to use the W10 taskbar in W11 with a registry hack, in the current builds.
Drag and drop was already abysmal on Windows compared to MacOS, things I take for granted on MacOS like dragging an image from a web browser to a photoshop document just don't work. This is just another kick in the teeth for people who find this a fast and flexible way to work.
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> Now I'm not a user of this feature. But in my immediate circle, no less than 6 of the many people I know work with windows (maybe 30 folks ?) use the task bar on the left or right (they have different monitor setups) That's very strange. I have been a Windows developer since the 90s so I've seen a lot of setups, between other developers and all the users I have had to interact with. So this number is in the thousan…
I use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.
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I’ve used the task bar this way. (Along the left vertically) it matches how I use macOS which has the dock along the left.
Can I ask why? Just why MS, who asked for this? Was this really a feature people were complaining about? Really????? Why remove this feature? What logic is this? Trying to imitate apple os?
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I don't buy that "good-bad-good-bad" pattern that everyone references. It's a mildly funny observation, but it's hard to say that Windows 10 is really that good. It's more usable than Windows 8, but the bar was so low, that's not a very useful metric.
It added a lot more stability over win8 and removed a bunch of terrible UX. Additionally it added to a lot of the great ideas of windows 7. I can’t recall any off the top of my head, but I remember trying to do things in 7 and being surprised they weren’t possible. I agree that win8 set a low bar, but so did vista, fact is 7 was much better and 10 follows that same progression.
Case in point. Click start, settings, and look at the window that pops up. Where are the settings to add a new wifi AP? This is something you will do quite often if you have a laptop or tablet. Ohh wait, did you get the menu that actually has all the settings in it? Because there are two. Windows decides somewhat randomly which one to present you with. What sense does that make?
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The person you're responding to has changed the defaults. For what it's worth, Windows 11 supports none of these things, which is incredibly frustrating. I have the icons set small, which is good because the taskbar is smaller - but you cannot have two rows, nor can you have titlebar text available on the buttons "long-form style" as was an option in Windows 10. Additionally, there is no way to ungroup items like Win…
> The person you're responding to has changed the defaults. Hm. Are you sure? Their description of the different behaviour of the top and bottom rows doesn't sound possible, so I assumed their taskbar was a third party one or used third party extension that adds features. The Windows 11 Taskbar sounds pretty bad from your description.
I do use a third party program (Open Shell Menu) to replace the Windows start menu with the one from Win 7.
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I’ve used the task bar this way. (Along the left vertically) it matches how I use macOS which has the dock along the left.
Can I ask why? Just why MS, who asked for this? Was this really a feature people were complaining about? Really????? Why remove this feature? What logic is this? Trying to imitate apple os?
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> Now I'm not a user of this feature. But in my immediate circle, no less than 6 of the many people I know work with windows (maybe 30 folks ?) use the task bar on the left or right (they have different monitor setups) That's very strange. I have been a Windows developer since the 90s so I've seen a lot of setups, between other developers and all the users I have had to interact with. So this number is in the thousan…
I use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.
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> Now I'm not a user of this feature. But in my immediate circle, no less than 6 of the many people I know work with windows (maybe 30 folks ?) use the task bar on the left or right (they have different monitor setups) That's very strange. I have been a Windows developer since the 90s so I've seen a lot of setups, between other developers and all the users I have had to interact with. So this number is in the thousan…
I use it on the left because I have an ultra-wide monitor and run out of vertical space before horizontal space.