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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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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 195 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

In Windows 10, you could move it to the top, left, or right of the screen.

In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10. Let's not sell short the full extent idiocy on display, here.

"Pouring its engineering resources," my ass.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (8 children)

In the launch version of windows 11 and for over TWO YEARS it didn't even support drag&drop. It was working fine even on windows me

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Uh, what? Can you clarify what you mean by "drag&drop"? Because dragging and dropping files or text around within or between application windows definitely worked even when Win 11 was new, so you're probably talking about some specific instance, I assume?

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The taskbar on windows 11 for the first two years didn't support dragging and dropping on icons or opened applications. It was completely unusable

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, okay, gotcha. Yeah that's fair. Not something I've ever really used, so wasn't aware of that. Your comment read to me as if Windows as a whole just didn't support drag&drop.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Look at this video from 4 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHokrbjlz8

I updated even on the beta version and at the beginning I was like "well it's a beta, surely they will fix it"... Then it launched with the broken taskbar and I thought "surely this will be patched in a week" - it took TWO YEARS

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