"Never combine app icons"
HOORAY!! At least we won't have to suffer that particular torment.
Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
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Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#92So my desktop PC does not support Windows 11 (according to Windows Update). I guess I shouldn't be too sad about that fact, but I am concerned about future compatibility.
I wouldn’t worry about future compatibility anytime soon but Win11 is starting to get some noticeable feature improvements that won’t ever come to Win10 - e.g. phone link for iPhones, sandbox reboots.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#93Are there any active alternate shell packages for Windows? I used to run Blackbox4Windows or BBLean way back when. Very stale these days though.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#94Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#95Amazing, only 2 years to implement a feature you had already. What was so problematic about the Windows 10 taskbar that they had to completely scrap it and start from zero??
The taskbar wasn't just the "Windows 10 taskbar". It's pretty much had code left over from Win95 and just was continually built on top of. It desperately needed a rewrite from scratch.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#96Amazing, only 2 years to implement a feature you had already. What was so problematic about the Windows 10 taskbar that they had to completely scrap it and start from zero??
Well, they didn't scrap it and start from zero... at least the labels were already disabled in Windows 7 by default, and more than 10 years later they thought it would be safe to remove them completely, but looks like they were wrong. Personally, the Windows 7-style task bar (icons only and combining quick launch icons with the task bar) was one of the few innovations (yeah, I know it was heavily inspired by MacOS) t…
> the labels were already disabled in Windows 7 by default
And literally every Windows user I personally know has turned them back on.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if MS breaks too much or forgets to add compatibility modes/quirks, said enterprise customers are going to be pretty pissed because that can sometimes mean they have to buy new machines costing many millions of dollars The obvious solution is to leave those enterprise customers behind on the legacy edition of Windows and launching something new. But Microsoft seems incapable of going to market with something new al…
It's strange that MS has never did what Apple did with the OS 9 → OS X transition, starting with a fresh foundation and making a clean break from the predecessor by way of a well-integrated "Classic" mode that seamlessly runs legacy applications in a "borderless" VM. The most natural time to have done this would've probably been going from XP → Vista/7, which broke a number of old things anyway. For all that switchin…
Windows 10x was rumored to run Win32 programs within a single-combined container for backward compatibility purpose too.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#98Are there any active alternate shell packages for Windows? I used to run Blackbox4Windows or BBLean way back when. Very stale these days though.
CairoShell is something I've used recently. It's active.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> on the other the endless sea of enterprise customers representing a burden for compatibility Ah, those users. Users who want their OS to stay firmly in the background and let them get on with their jobs, and who aren't actually that bothered about "feature" upgrades every month or three. Something is very wrong with a business when a big proportion of the customer base is viewed as a burden on the product.
The problem with pleasing old costumers is that you might fail to gain new customers. Microsoft is mostly conservative with its OS, while Apple is not afraid to cut off features it consideres outdated. And the MacOS market share has increased strongly over the last ~20 years.
And how ubiquitous is MacOS compared to Windows? It isn't even close
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#100Microsoft is not what it used to be.. now unbloat all the stuff and remove useless services.. they are about to miss on the Handheld console revolution.. crazy when you think about it, they own windows yet they let it rot, just open source it at this point
They could have owned the handheld console market if they had just repeated what Sega and Sony did.
Basically: When the next gen comes out, use the latest tech to miniaturize and make portable the previous gen.
Gamegear for the most part was a Sega Master System. The PSP for the most part was a Playstation 1. Both were released during a time where there was too many limitations to really fully utilize that prior catalog (see: GameGear SMS converter, which was HUGE, limited memory for downloading games onto PSP, no legal path for importing your PS1 library into the PSP from physical disks).
Imagine the market share Microsoft would have if they made an Xbox One or before that Xbox 360 portable, which could play your existing library using cloud saves.