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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by MikusR on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:49AM (#35685912)
They had a huge failure with Surface Neo and the OS (and the taskbar/start menu) they were making for it Windows 10x. After Neo was cancelled they tried to retool 10x for ordinary laptops. After that failed they took the crappy start/taskbar meant for dual screen/one app per screen devices, slapped it on top of latest insider version of Windows 10, introduced arbitrary cpu cutoff (so essentially screwing a large part of Windows insiders) and called it Windows 11.
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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by sometimesjerks on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:44PM (#35689993)
There's some truth to this -- it's 100% the taskbar from 10X, but there's a lot of other changes for 11 (settings, taskbar stuff like volume controller, file explorer). Secondary goal was probably to decouple/undock the taskbar from the main OS which would require rebuilding some parts.
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