[protoster]

So why did they make taskbar bottom only in the first place? Too difficult to implement? Branding? No room for ads when it's vertical?

[layer8]

Because the Apple dock is bottom-only too, and the Microsoft UI designers are using Macs.

[mike_hearn]

It's not though. You can pin it to the side.

[hbn]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong cause I don't recall where I got this understanding from, but I believe Windows 11 still has the Windows 10 taskbar, but a startup process basically hides it and replaces it with a brand new one they made for Windows 11, built with web technologies. And they probably just never got around to figuring out how to put it somewhere else on the screen since they didn't inherit that behaviour from before.

[dude250711]

The assigned LLM junior could not prompt out the required <div>s.

[contextfree]

It doesn't use web technologies

[twobitshifter]

Performance. They couldn't even handle seconds in the clock on win11 release.

[nickorlow]

It cracks me up that the toggle for this advises you that it will cause your battery to die faster

[p_ing]

Displaying seconds on macOS also causes higher CPU usage for WindowServer.