Windows 11 taskbar is causing more complaints – but Microsoft isn’t budging

Windows 11 has witnessed numerous modifications to the performance of the taskbar which haven’t been fashionable, and in that vein, a contemporary elimination has been highlighted – specifically the stripping again of the calendar flyout.

The story right here, as relayed by Windows Latest, is that the calendar flyout from the taskbar – the panel which pops up whenever you click on on the time/date within the system tray, far-right – now not has occasions integration on the backside. In different phrases, there’s no agenda seen handily flagging up at-a-glance occasions and reminders anymore.

Similarly, on the prime, there’s now not a big model of the clock show which moreover exhibits the variety of seconds (not simply the hour and minutes).

As Windows Latest factors out, these testing Windows 11 had beforehand assumed that the lacking occasions integration was only a bug within the calendar flyout, but it seems that this isn’t the case, and Microsoft has really eliminated the power.

Instead, the software program large desires folks to make use of the widgets panel to entry calendar occasions and reminders. Microsoft informed one consumer who complained: “Thank you so much for giving us your feedback. While we’ll continue to use your feedback to guide the future of features like this, currently on Windows 11, there is a calendar option in the new widgets experience that you can use to quickly see your personal calendar and its events.”

There’s no scarcity of complaints about this difficulty on Microsoft’s Feedback Hub, and in different places like Reddit.

One consumer posted within the Feedback Hub: “Widget does not have all your calendars and is full of news and unnecessary stuff. Please make it available as before, as it was PERFECT, and you had the option to create events for whatever accounts you have linked at the spot.”

With Windows 11 seemingly poised on transferring into the ultimate levels of testing earlier than launch (probably in October), issues are unlikely to alter, it appears, given Microsoft’s above remark.

By the way in which, for these Windows 11 testers who're lacking the big clock show on the prime of the calendar flyout, the more optimistic information is which you could really carry this again by heading to Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time > Additional clocks, the place there’s the choice to point out as much as two clocks. However, notice that they received’t show the readout of seconds as seen in Windows 10, simply the hour and minutes.

Analysis: Forcing the problem?

It’s a worrying theme that with sure bits of the Windows 11 interface, Microsoft appears to be stubbornly forcing via what are already unpopular modifications even going by tester suggestions (a restricted set of customers, after all, in comparison with the broader normal computing public who're ultimately going to come back face-to-face with all these lacking bits of performance).

Why not have occasions integration with the taskbar’s calendar flyout? Or a minimum of have it as a attainable choice? Well, we all know why on this case, and it’s to funnel of us into utilizing the widgets panel (which pushes MSN content material, and opens stuff within the Edge browser in addition).

Why not enable the clock on the flyout to show seconds? There’s no good reply for that we are able to consider, besides it’s only a streamlining measure, and a part of making the general look of Windows 11 cleaner. But some of us like the choice of seeing the precise seconds, so is there actually any hurt in permitting them a selection to change that again on when including a clock again to the calendar flyout?

For that matter, what concerning the different baffling and unpopular taskbar modifications that we’ve highlighted up to now, like eradicating the flexibility to tug and drop app icons onto the taskbar to shortly and simply make a shortcut there, or to drop information onto taskbar app icons to open them?

More selection is all the time good in the principle, absolutely? But with Windows 11, it’s beginning to really feel like Microsoft is distancing itself more from the ‘we’re listening to suggestions’ philosophy that got here round with the launch of Windows 10, and is leaning more in the direction of telling of us how issues must be carried out – a lot more within the vein of Windows 8. And we don’t have to let you know how harmful that stance is…