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Re:Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking by aasasd on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:09PM (#23631638)
> APIs for automatically pinning icons to the Taskbar never existed

Well, afaik from 98 to XP it was just ‘put your shortcuts in the Quicklaunch folder’ (dunno about Vista and later).

I'm tempted to run Win10 just to see what happened to it in the past decade.

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Re:Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking by Kipters on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:31PM (#23635062)
IIRC it changed with Seven's taskbar, which removed the Quick Launch section, basically unifying it with the usual taskbar buttons (similar to how the Dock works in macOS)

To be clear, an API for pinning apps now exists[0], but it asks confirmation to the user

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/shell/pi...

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