I'm sure we'll just see a fork, as in any healthy software ecosystem. :)
Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
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Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#32> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
If your employer gives you a Windows laptop with a company image on it like mine does, it eventually won't matter how much you protest against it.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#33Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
I mean if you're dumb enough to tie yourself to garbage proprietary software that constantly sucks, has majority security flaws as features, removes features, spies on you, and charges you money to use it on every computer, then you're getting what you asked for and you just don't realize it.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#34Microsoft seems to have a knack for making Windows less useful and more annoying with every release.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#35Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
What does that have to do with software engineers? I highly doubt any of the software engineers just up and decided to remove the feature one day on a whim. Someone outside of software engineering likely came up with the idea. Do you expect people to quit over removing drag and drop on the task bar?
At this point? Yes. They should care enough about computing to take a stand against dragging it backwards. But hell, they won't quit over knowingly and actively making everyone's lives worse and handing tracking information over to oppressive regimes, so I clearly expect too much from them.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#36Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
Actually, its the product managers. Us, software “professionals” dont even like windows. You are barking at the wrong tree.
"Don't blame us, we were just following orders!"
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#37Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
I worked on the Windows Core UX team. If you think this is an engineering led decision, you have had a different experience with large software organizations than I have. Even with the Windows 8 UX changes, our most senior engineers were up in arms in open protest and they STILL went through with it. This is a Product led decision.
Then how about walking out en masse?
Either that or accept co-responsibility.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#38> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
Every year or so I reevaluate whether Linux can run without dual boot on my desktop and the cycle is the same - something that was previously a blocker is no longer a blocker, but along the way I discover some other issue. It used to be gaming, GPU video decoding on Firefox, etc. Now it is the fact that most music production software uses iLok - in particular I've been using Neural DSP VSTs to play and record guitar.
If there is a workaround for that I'm onboard... At least until I discover the next blocker.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#39Welcome to the glorious future everyone, where our computers are less featureful than they were in the 1990s. Could all of you "professional" software "engineers" out there please just stop sucking so damned hard? You're making me deeply ashamed to be a part of this industry.
I worked on the Windows Core UX team. If you think this is an engineering led decision, you have had a different experience with large software organizations than I have. Even with the Windows 8 UX changes, our most senior engineers were up in arms in open protest and they STILL went through with it. This is a Product led decision.
>This is a Product led decision.
I've never worked at Microsoft, but have worked at other large software companies. This is 100% a design decision. Engineers like buttons, shortcuts, neat tricks, test tools, secret options, lots of menus, etc.
Re: Microsoft confirms taskbar in Windows 11 no longer supports drag and drop
#40> If this controversial change frustrates you, as well as thousands of other insiders, make sure to send your feedback to Microsoft. Or, just don't use windows 11. I certainly won't. I'm only using win10 as it is because they don't care if you use an unauthorized copy for free. At this point my camel's back is a needle away from switching to linux/mac.
Just as soon as the CAD tools I've put a decade into learning and building tools for work on something other than Windows, I'll be right with you.