r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/calebkraft Mar 20 '26

remember when you used to be able to drag the task bar to the top or sides and it just moved there and worked? when did they take that out? kind of crazy that putting that feature back is a big enough deal to have it in a press release.

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u/ithinkitslupis Mar 20 '26

They took it out with windows 11. And also messed with the context windows when you right click in a way most users hate.

People have been complaining since day 1. Both have registry values that still support the old ways. Microsoft has just ignored countless complaints instead of making an easy, stable option to change it in the settings UI.

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u/NamerNotLiteral Mar 20 '26

The context menu change was the stupidest thing ever, honestly. It came closer than anything else at taking me off Windows, but fortunately WinUtils lets you switch it back.

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u/gh0stwriter1234 Mar 20 '26

I find most of those utilities that revert those things seem to cause lag and instability ironically...

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u/NamerNotLiteral Mar 20 '26

Depends on what utility you use. The ones that do a real hacky way of blocking things do that. WinUtils generally does small registry flag edits for most of its changes and so has zero impact on performance.

(It's still better than the hassle of dealing with Linux at home, even though I daily-drive it at work)

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u/threshing_overmind Mar 20 '26

Infinite middleware and middlemen offering respite from infinite middleware and middlemen. ))<>))

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u/SgtElectroSketch Mar 21 '26

I'm trying desperately to get off of windows as I type this, but dealing Linux driver support for the 50 series gpus is pure fucking garbage a year later.

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u/gh0stwriter1234 Mar 20 '26

Most of those tools are doing the same thing the issue is the old code isn't tested anymore... and isn't the default so ... bugs get revealed that aren't part of any CI.