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Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Probably to add something terrible for the user but good for MS. Ad integration? Easier to spy?

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

    That's fair, but even with that, it's got to be easier to shove it into existing code. Especially if you're trying to do it in a way that people don't notice!

    And actually, the Windows 10 start menu infamously had ads, too. So it can't be that.

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

    Could be that refactoring the code for Windows 11 compatibility, and new features, would have been roughly equivalent in effort to rebuilding. If the code has been poked and probed for years already, still follows old patterns, and have devolved into a tightly coupled mess of scattered system dependancies… maybe it just becomes easier to justify rebuilding it as a way of clearing out technical debt?

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