Windows 11 will be released on the 5th of October

[nlinecomputers]

Microsoft will release Windows 11 on October 5th

It will be a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 PCs.

www.theverge.com

 

[sapphirescales]

As soon as they add support for putting the taskbar at the top of the screen I'll upgrade my personal rigs. I just can't stand having the taskbar on the bottom and having to look down all the time. Besides, the bottom of my screens are usually at least partially covered by one thing or another. From what I understand, they're not going to have the time to add the movable taskbar feature before the official launch. I know you can use a registry tweak to move the taskbar, but there's a reason why Microsoft removed that feature. I'm sure it will be buggy if I do that.

 

[timeshifter]

As soon as they add support for putting the taskbar at the top of the screen I'll upgrade my personal rigs.

Funny thing I remember from the early days of Windows 95 et al. My understanding is that Microsoft intended the taskbar to be on the top of the screen. It was moved to the bottom because not many programs were written in a way that didn't conflict with that placement.

 

[MDD1963]

We will see just what sorts of 'improvements' WIn11 brings when coupled with Intel's newer forthcoming Alder Lake (12900K) vs. WIn10 with 10900K/11900K in the applications that matter (i.e., Battlefield 1, Battlefield 5, etc...!)

So far the ever-so-slightly rounded-corners Windows, items centered in taskbar, and random changes (from former right click on WIn10 to possibly needing 2 or 3 clicks on Win11?) is hardly making Win11 a 'must have now!' for me...

I find it hard to be suddenly not satisfied with my 7700K /32 GB RAM/960 EVO running at 4.7 GHz on all cores...; hard to imagine my 'surfing/e-mail/video watching experience' will be appreciably enhanced with newer hardware or a 'newer' OS....

 

[Sky-Knight]

You won't see any "improvements" really, short of specre / meltdown mitigations not eating so much of your CPU.

 

[sapphirescales]

My understanding is that Microsoft intended the taskbar to be on the top of the screen.

It just makes sense. Menus drop DOWN, they don't go upward anywhere else in Windows (or Mac OS for that matter). Having the clock in the upper right corner of the screen is nice as well. I remember the first time I used a Windows 95 computer I was like "WTF is that menu bar doing down there? There's got to be a way to move it to the top." In fact, that was the FIRST thing I actually did in Windows 95 (after clicking the Start button of course). I moved it and I never looked back. I've never used my computers with the Start menu on the bottom and I never will. It's a horrible position.

Right now I'm in my home repair shop looking up at the 55" TV mounted on the wall that I use as a monitor. On my desk below there's a client's 27" iMac that I just finished fixing. The top of the iMac cuts a few inches off the bottom of my screen. If I was using Windows 11 right now I wouldn't be able to use my freaking computer.

To my right I have my secondary repair monitor on the desk. Underneath the monitor is my spray bottle and rag that I use to clean computers as well as my jar that I put all my tools in. These things obstruct the bottom of my screen. That's not a big deal when the taskbar is at the top, but if it was stuck on the bottom I'd have to constantly worry about having my desk clear. And before you think something like "maybe not be such a pig," this is my repair table. It's always messy when I'm in the middle of doing a repair. That's unavoidable.

I'm not reorganizing my entire repair shop just because Microsoft has a hard-on for keeping the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. I'd sooner stay with Windows 10 or failing that I'll use third party tools like Start11. I'd prefer an official solution from Microsoft, of course, but I am NOT keeping my taskbar at the bottom of my display.

 

[timeshifter]

I also remember a little utility that would fix programs that overlapped the taskbar when it was on the top. It would run in the background and if a program overlapped it would bump it down to the correct position.

 

[sapphirescales]

I also remember a little utility that would fix programs that overlapped the taskbar when it was on the top. It would run in the background and if a program overlapped it would bump it down to the correct position.

I was poor as dirt when Windows 95 came out. In fact, I think it was 1998 or so until I even got Windows 95 and when I did, I certainly wasn't using state of the art software. I'm trying to even think of any software I actually used back then that wasn't MS-DOS based. I was 7 years old so they were mostly games, though I think I had an old copy of Microsoft Works that I borrowed from my grandmother. This was obviously before the days of internet activation, so I wasn't following the EULA. I didn't even know what an EULA was back then. I only had Windows 95 for a year at most, then I upgraded it to Windows 98 (again, using a copy I borrowed from my grandmother). Did a clean install since it wasn't the "upgrade" version. It wiped out some old games that originally came with the computer, which made me really sad since I didn't have the floppies to reinstall them, nor did I have the original restore CD that came with the computer. I figured this crap out all on my own. I didn't have internet. I didn't even have any books to teach me. It feels like a completely different lifetime.

 

[Sky-Knight]

I prefer my dock at the bottom thanks... software menus drop down, OS menus climb up. It lets me use the screen more efficiently.

 

[cypress]

Looking forward to running it... on my test system.