[twobitshifter]

A feature they removed due to their inability to make it performant in Windows 11 A feature that existed as early as win95. The most requested change in user voice, since the earliest windows 11 betas.

[bitwize]

It takes a team of Ph.D. level engineers to implement left-hand taskbars in a performant way! You can't expect ordinary folks from the Windows shell team to code at that level!

[andrekandre]

it probably took them too long in plan-mode to spec it all and then iterate on the plan-do-check cycle with copilot so they just said ship it as-is

(only slightly sarcastic here ^^)

[bitwize]

Probably, though I wasn't even talking about AI, I was talking about Microsoft's objections to when Casey Muratori told them that Windows Terminal sucked and they should be able to write one that goes at 60fps easy. The Windows Terminal team said "It would take a team of PhDs to do that", so Casey wrote a basic, but 60fps, terminal emulator in like a long weekend.

[andrekandre]

thanks for the clarification!

[TiredOfLife]

That feature was never in windows 11. The taskbar and start menu in windows 11 are from a cancelled version of windows meant for Surface neo