Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 days agoProbably to add something terrible for the user but good for MS. Ad integration? Easier to spy?
Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 days agoProbably to add something terrible for the user but good for MS. Ad integration? Easier to spy?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s fair, but even with that, it’s got to be easier to shove it into existing code. Especially if you’re trying to do it in a way that people don’t notice!
And actually, the Windows 10 start menu infamously had ads, too. So it can’t be that.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Could be that refactoring the code for Windows 11 compatibility, and new features, would have been roughly equivalent in effort to rebuilding. If the code has been poked and probed for years already, still follows old patterns, and have devolved into a tightly coupled mess of scattered system dependancies… maybe it just becomes easier to justify rebuilding it as a way of clearing out technical debt?
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The people responsible only had experience with React, so they rebuilt it using React.