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There is even a paid app doing that now! Beyond free ones. That's how rare problem is this. :D You actually meet with it daily, hourly if using two or more win

There is even a paid app doing that now! Beyond free ones. That's how rare problem is this. :D You actually meet with it daily, hourly if using two or more windows by the same app. Just because you are a hobbist user and never met a productivity problem it doesn't mean that the professional population does not suffer from it (see, I can make unfunded assumptions too about the other end ;) ). All around me have this problem, with various level of seriousity. Google the problem, like I did for prolonged time searching for a good answer, it will bring up masses of troubled people. > maybe Microsoft already calculated that fixing it won't bring much if any more money than not and therefore that it's not worth it Can you also have an educated deliberation about the calculations justified the removal of this feature existed before? ;)

mynameisvlad 4y ago
> There is even a paid app doing that now Does that somehow change prioritization? If anything, it would lower the priority because there's a workaround people can use. > All around me have this problem, with various level of seriousity. Google the problem, like I did for prolonged time searching for a good answer, it will bring up masses of troubled people. If it was as large of a problem as you claim, with as wide an impacted userbase, it would have already been fixed. Yet here we are. All you've proven is that there is a vocal minority. Which I already said. At the scale of Microsoft and Windows (1.4 billion active users), for every person complaining about a specific problem, there are literally millions of users who aren't. Just because it is a problem for you does not mean it's automatically a big enough problem to address. If it isn't going to actively lose users (which it clearly isn't, considering people wrote apps to stay on Windows and have this behavior), then it isn't worth it. > Can you also have an educated deliberation about the calculations justified the removal of this feature existed before? ;) I'm not a seer, but it's plainly obvious from a software prioritization standpoint. The taskbar was rewritten and the feature was not justified as being important enough to keep. Wow, such deep, so insight.
- miles 4y ago
  >> There is even a paid app doing that now > If anything, it would lower the priority because there's a workaround people can use. Until this happens: Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_crash/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999885
  - mynameisvlad 4y ago
    Ok? I'm not sure how that changes the point. Things break, the app developers fix it, and then they work again. I don't think there's an expectation anywhere that third party apps will work forever, from the standpoint of anyone involved. But a viable workaround for users even if it isn't first party will change prioritization when looking at a feature.
vitorgrs 4y ago
Is not just a removal, you know right? They rewrote taskbar entirely. It's actually coming soon the feature :)

mynameisvlad 4y ago

> There is even a paid app doing that now Does that somehow change prioritization? If anything, it would lower the priority because there's a workaround people can use. > All around me have this problem, with various level of seriousity. Google the problem, like I did for prolonged time searching for a good answer, it will bring up masses of troubled people. If it was as large of a problem as you claim, with as wide an impacted userbase, it would have already been fixed. Yet here we are. All you've proven is that there is a vocal minority. Which I already said. At the scale of Microsoft and Windows (1.4 billion active users), for every person complaining about a specific problem, there are literally millions of users who aren't. Just because it is a problem for you does not mean it's automatically a big enough problem to address. If it isn't going to actively lose users (which it clearly isn't, considering people wrote apps to stay on Windows and have this behavior), then it isn't worth it. > Can you also have an educated deliberation about the calculations justified the removal of this feature existed before? ;) I'm not a seer, but it's plainly obvious from a software prioritization standpoint. The taskbar was rewritten and the feature was not justified as being important enough to keep. Wow, such deep, so insight.

miles 4y ago
>> There is even a paid app doing that now > If anything, it would lower the priority because there's a workaround people can use. Until this happens: Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_crash/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999885
- mynameisvlad 4y ago
  Ok? I'm not sure how that changes the point. Things break, the app developers fix it, and then they work again. I don't think there's an expectation anywhere that third party apps will work forever, from the standpoint of anyone involved. But a viable workaround for users even if it isn't first party will change prioritization when looking at a feature.

vitorgrs 4y ago

Is not just a removal, you know right? They rewrote taskbar entirely. It's actually coming soon the feature :)