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Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 99 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

WHAT DATA?!

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

    Which is why if you dig deep enough into Settings you'll see WinXP Control Panel UI elements. You know, the elements that are actually useful for power users.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    There's a format dialog from NT still present in win 11

    edit: it's from 1994 according to the person who wrote it

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    The main one I use is the network adaptor settings, where you can enable/disable protocols and most importantly for me, where you can easily add multiple IP addresses on a network adaptor.

    The Win 8+ network settings page is an absolute trainwreck. I particularly like how it doesn't warn about conflicting IP addresses now and just silently accepts your given address and provides an auto-assigned 169.254 address instead if it sees even the smallest hint of another computer out there using the address you want to use.

    Guaranteed fun and confusion trying to access/ping things until you finally check the status of the network adaptor and discover the auto assigned address, thanks Microsoft.

    Not everyone wants to use dhcp, which is clearly their preferred direction, and there have been bugs where Cisco devices trigger that flip to auto assigned addresses even if things are fine.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Most of the old settings are at least easily reached if you can remember their names such as ncpa.cpl for the settings you mention but when you write "control printers" you get sent into the new Settings view now. Instead you gotta go to the control panel and change view from category to small or large icons to finally right click Devices and Printers and choose "open in a new window" to get there. If you left click it you get sent to the new Settings view.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    It seems that every new release adds another layer of indirection (misdirection?) between you and the useful stuff you need to access. I use a third party utility to manage IP settings, and it's one click from its menu to get to the network adapter page. It takes me about 5 minutes of angry clicking around in stock standard win11 before I get to the same place.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The data they have compiled from years of people using Win 10 and Msoft Edge.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If they were using that data, then they would have included features people actually use in 10. Or maybe they’re just doing the inverse of whatever the data suggests.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Or maybe you're overestimating the amount of people who actually used that. Spending effort on something that less than maybe 1% of users actually use and that is not load bearing to any important workflows is hard to argue for when you're a corp that is only concerned about its own bottom line. It's a pretty rational business decision, even if you (and I) disagree with it.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's Microsoft, they have all the data. And quite frankly it doesn't surprise even a little bit, i doubt even 5% of people moved around the taskbar, people are just ready to hitch themselves to every bandwagon they see shitting on Microsoft.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    In that case, based on the roughly 1.5 billion Windows users, that’ll only affect a mere 75 million users for a feature that’s been there since Windows 95.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    The equation they are thinking of, though, is "will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature." Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.

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