In the rewriting they seemingly lost a lot of functionality, including taskbar labels, placement of taskbar at sides, resize of taskbar, etc.
Some people said that maybe the aim of MS was exactly to remove the functionality, to convert the taskbar into a dock, etc. But now it seems that MS slowly restores the previously lost functionality, such as taskbar labels.
It should be noted that re-writing the taskbar or writing it from scratch is not at all a difficult task, there are many third-party taskbar replacements, such as SCTT or Retrobar and various other kinds of docks. Moreover, taskbar had been already several times re-written in Windows since Windows 95, without much loss of functionality.
Thus come the questions:
1. Why it was necessary to rewrite the taskbar?
2. Why this rewriting is accompanied with severe loss of functionality, unlike previous times, that still, after years is not fully mitigated yet?
3. Why it was considered worth it to lose a lot of functionality and alienate users (many of whom desided either to stay on Windows 10 or to use the old taskbar via Explorer Patcher) for this kind of re-write?
Some people said that maybe the aim of MS was exactly to remove the functionality, to convert the taskbar into a dock, etc. But now it seems that MS slowly restores the previously lost functionality, such as taskbar labels.
It should be noted that re-writing the taskbar or writing it from scratch is not at all a difficult task, there are many third-party taskbar replacements, such as SCTT or Retrobar and various other kinds of docks. Moreover, taskbar had been already several times re-written in Windows since Windows 95, without much loss of functionality.
Thus come the questions:
1. Why it was necessary to rewrite the taskbar?
2. Why this rewriting is accompanied with severe loss of functionality, unlike previous times, that still, after years is not fully mitigated yet?
3. Why it was considered worth it to lose a lot of functionality and alienate users (many of whom desided either to stay on Windows 10 or to use the old taskbar via Explorer Patcher) for this kind of re-write?
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