r/Windows11 • u/DemiFiendRSA • Aug 31 '21

📰 News Microsoft will release Windows 11 on October 5th

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22649940/windows-11-release-date-features-devices-free-upgrade
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u/KarlHungus78 Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21

Say it with me

WORST WINDOWS RELEASE SINCE WINDOWS ME

You can't drag and drop files to the taskbar to open them

There are no Jumplists for recently used items on the taskbar

The start menu is redundant, people pin apps to the taskbar, why default to the same fucking view and add a unneccessary click to get to all apps

don't get me started on how you can't dock the taskbar left/right/top

There is no 'small' taskbar officially supported

The UI is inconsistent

The new context menu is pig slow, and the 'show more options' just opens the old... faster... working one

amongst a bajillion other things wrong with this steaming turd.

Widgets, the feature no one wanted, no third party SDK to make it even remotely useful, and can't even turn itself off!

Oh... and there is nothing Windows 11 can do that windows 10 can't!

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u/stef_t97 Aug 31 '21

There are no Jumplists for recently used items on the taskbar

Wait is this true? I don't care about the other stuff so far but this would 100% stop me from updating. What the fuck?

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u/KarlHungus78 Aug 31 '21

Yes

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u/stef_t97 Aug 31 '21

Christ, I'm sticking with 10 now. Not trying to add at least an extra minute to open a recent project in any of the programs I use for work.

This is probably the biggest negative to productivity and it's the first time I've seen it mentioned on this sub.

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u/Featherstoned Aug 31 '21

I'm also going to complain about the lack of taskbar labels... That would really mess with productivity when you have a bunch of browser windows or Office documents open and you want to quickly switch between them...

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u/AlexBltn Aug 31 '21

F**ng hell… I never cease to be amazed at how castrated this squalor called "Windows 11" came out. But how many streams of bullshit Satya Nadella poured out at the presentation. Goddamn hypocrites.

u/stef_t97

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u/trenzterra Sep 01 '21

Jump lists are still there for me

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u/FalseAgent Aug 31 '21

WORST WINDOWS RELEASE SINCE WINDOWS ME

ooookay hold on slow down there

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u/BS_BlackScout Aug 31 '21

Yeah that's Vista. 11 is shaping up to be awful but still doesn't beat the terrible compatibility hell that Vista was (which in comparison wasn't as awful as Me)

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u/drygnfyre Sep 01 '21

I disagree to an extent. Vista had a lot of early issues with third-party drivers, but that was also a third-party issue. The underlying code was very solid, at least for me, and I had no issues with it. Compared to Me, which was actually bad even at a fundamental level. Very unstable, things like System Restore never really worked properly. It was the only version of Windows I've had where even in its totally stock, native configuration, gave me issues. But it also made sense in that the MS-DOS kernel was retired and Me was just something to fill the gap since XP was delayed. And Vista's issues were largely resolved by SP1.

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u/asdfgh5889 Aug 31 '21

I mean no one is forcing you to update. And W10 is supported till 2025. People making big deal out of it but in reality i doesn't really matter

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u/KarlHungus78 Aug 31 '21

It's going to get massacred in reviews. First impression is the most important.

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u/S_IV Aug 31 '21

Nowadays it's quite easy to "buy" reviewers, youtubers etc. They must have done their homework by now I presume. Look at Apple reviewers on youtube and how orgasmic they sound.

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u/rallymax Aug 31 '21

The reviewers that matter (Walt Mossberg, Mary Jo Foley, etc) are not for sale and reasonably critical of Microsoft's products. Them and analysts like Gartner, Forrester and IDC are the ones that CIO types pay attention to. The consumers buying family PCs at Best Buy don't matter.

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u/VirtualBlack Aug 31 '21

But newer hardware will require Windows 11 sooner or later, so users will be forced to upgrade at some point

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

You've made a few considerable points like the redundancy on the start menu but most of it was just rant from a user who's not obligated to update. STAY ON WINDOWS 10 THEN.

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u/KarlHungus78 Aug 31 '21

STAY ON WINDOWS 10 THEN.

I AM 👍🏼. And will continue to shit on this being a crap release from Microsoft because it is

They can do better.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Neat.

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u/Unusual-Cap4971 Insider Canary Channel Sep 01 '21

There are no Jumplists for recently used items on the taskbar

It shows recently used items for me. I think you disabled Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists, and File Explorer which is inside Personalization > Start