Windows 11 can't move the taskbar, and four years later, Microsoft still has no plans to bring it back. Here's why, according to Microsoft.
  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    What this essentially means is that when the taskbar sits at the bottom, Windows and third-party apps know exactly how much horizontal space they have to work with. Once you move it to the left or right, the math breaks.

    Yup, engineers being paid six figures in their large corporate offices, controlling humanity’s access to computers… hardcoded screen space sizes.

    Of course this answer is also part bs because they don’t want to let users move their taskbar because they should have to pay for that privilege.

      • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        MS has been using react native for the UI components but it turns out that MS reaped what they sow as every engineer they bring on has to learn and study Microsoft’s legacy codebase from scratch and a lot of those Windows 7 era components are still the load-bearing peg to everything.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    Aw, we’re sorry. We can’t give the task bar basic functionality a small subset of you actually want. We’re wayyy too busy pumping it chock full of all sorts of “advanced” functionality everyone hates!