They also finally allowed moving the taskbar to any edge of the screen.

It only too them 6 years. But still lacks the ability to set it to your desired width. Its coming sometime in the next 6 years (unless windows 12 come first, then you lose the ability to set the taskbar to the side and have ot restart the cycle).

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SillyUsername 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's the one that made me ditch Win11 for Mint, a top panel + Plank Reloaded.

My entire UI workflow is top right orientated (menus, windows size/close buttons, docks) for muscle memory, so the Win10 stopped security updates forced me to switch.

Ironically a week later they extended security support for Win10.

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wolvoleo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty insane how a company that knocked out office and visual studio in the scope of a year or so now has problems making a task bar moveable.

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accidc an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have to use sharepoint on ms edge for work. Today I had to search something up an on my 27" monitor, I had 7 fixed rows of non-content on the top (including the tab bar and the locator bar) and 3 fixed rows at the bottom: last one being the windows taskbar that I still cant move as 26H2 hasn't been deployed.

The actual search results were a scrollable list with 5 rows visible of the content I was searching for.

I wonder what skills must one posses to rise to places that give one the authority to make such decisions? Are there incentives that drive these or are these borne of Kafkaesque bureaucracies? Does no one object to such monstrosities? Are the ones responsible so bereft of empathy and/or common sense? I know this is meandering and pointless but I wonder and struggle to understand the thought processes. This apathy, sure it presents itself in something so mundane but it permeates everything. i guess its the human condition.

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gnabgib 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which year was Office (1988) and Visual Studio (1997) knocked out?

	▲	wolvoleo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The late 90s. Office for dos is not what we know now. Office 98 was basically the same as what we have today, the improvements since then have been only incremental. And often worse like the ribbon. Visual studio came from this time too, they were really on a roll then. Microsoft just stops investing in innovation once they take over a market. You saw it with IE, with office, with windows even.