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I wonder why they removed the feature. Microsoft isn’t exactly known for cutting features to achieve a minimalist interface.
by voisin 5y ago
I wonder why they removed the feature. Microsoft isn’t exactly known for cutting features to achieve a minimalist interface.
- foepys 5y agoThey probably rewrote the entire taskbar because reasons and when the deadline neared, they cut features. I would not rule out the possibility that the team that rewrote the taskbar does not include a single person who wrote the original taskbar and now nobody knows how to get drag and drop to work reliably with all formats.
- chris_j 5y agoI forget where I read it but I heard that this has been a big problem in Microsoft: it's politically easier for a team to get approval to write a whole new feature (to replace an existing one) than it is for an existing team to get approval to spend a significant amount of effort making big changes/improvements. I suppose it makes sense in a lot of ways to work like this but it can lead to situations where a new component doesn't do half the things that the old component used to do. I'd be interested to learn if that really is what happened here.
- ConceptJunkie 5y agoYes they are. So much of the flexibility of the desktop UI disappeared with Windows 8. It's literally less customizable than Windows 2 was.