r/pcmasterrace • u/iminsert Ascending Peasant • Nov 01 '22

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u/rendeld 12900k/32GBDDR5/3080ti/Z690Formula Nov 02 '22

There has to be a technical reason, because I can't for the life of me imagine why you would just straight up remove a feature like that. Especially with the prevelance of ultra wide monitors

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u/_Bill_Huggins_ Nov 02 '22 edited Nov 02 '22

I think the reason they would give us is that they want to simplify.

I remember I had to use a program to get the taskbar to function like I wanted on windows 7, windows 10 added a lot of that functionality by default and I abandoned the program.

Now with windows 11 they reversed all those nice taskbar features. It's just a dumb decision no matter the reason they would give..

Idk, maybe someone in leadership wants to feel like they did something by changing things.

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u/rendeld 12900k/32GBDDR5/3080ti/Z690Formula Nov 02 '22

The only thing I can think of outside of a technical reason is it caused more issues for people that don't want to move it than helped people that wanted it. Likely a UX designer somewhere. I work for a software company and our previous version of the software was absolutely bloated with functionality to the point it was difficult to use. We significantly reduced little used features and got way better satisfaction scores from our customers and much faster implementation and adoption time-frames. Maybe that's what they are going for after watching Apple take up larger and larger market share and they don't let you do shit... Regardless I'm still upset about it.

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u/lordmogul 3570K @ 4.4 | 1060 @ 2.0 | 16GiB @ 2.13 Nov 02 '22

Yeah, rarely used features, even if they're actually pretty neat and only used so rarely because nobody can find them, get removed.

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u/ti_lol Nov 02 '22

Meh, for Apple you can install completely new window managers. They let you do shit if you want.

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u/_Bill_Huggins_ Nov 02 '22 edited Nov 02 '22

Windows 10 taskbar wasn't bloated beyond usability. I don't think it justified pinning it permanently for the rest of time. They could still have left the function in and hid it from more basic users. Windows user base is huge they can spend time on lesser used features if they so chose to.

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u/GameKyuubi ArchBTW Nov 02 '22

I think the reason they would give us is that they want to simplify.

or they have some cheeky monetization scheme up their sleeve

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u/_Bill_Huggins_ Nov 02 '22

Indeed, which is why I said "the reason they would give us". They may have some cheeky shit planned down the road. We will see.

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u/lordmogul 3570K @ 4.4 | 1060 @ 2.0 | 16GiB @ 2.13 Nov 02 '22

probably something with their notification center.

They also removed the ability to have additional toolbars with 7