They didn't say however in the leaked build last week the taskbar could not be moved to the left, right or top of the screen as it previously could.

Hopefully it was just a limitation in that particular developer build.

Doesn’t look like it. Wow.

> Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

Thank you, I really hope that changes.

You have been able to move the task bar to left/right screen edges for years. If your task bar is not locked, just click and drag it to the window edges.

A feature to Left align the buttons has been shown in the leaked builds.

Correct you can left align the buttons but there is no longer settings related to locking the taskbar and dragging it does nothing in the leaked build.

Hopefully that changes however with the new widgets fly-in from the left side it may be locked to the bottom similar to the dock on iOS.

I know, I have been doing that for years. We are talking about the upcoming build though. And it turns out, they all use Portrait mode at MS:

> Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

-- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

> You have been able to move the task bar to left/right screen edges for years

Since Windows 95, even.

I remember during the Windows 95 days users at my company suddenly had their task bars stuck to the left or right side of the screen and nobody knew how to get them back :(