Windows 11 taskbar is getting fixed (however not in a hurry)

Windows 11 is receiving additional consideration in phrases of ironing out bugs with the taskbar, and there’s been some recent buzz from the grapevine suggesting that a main change to tug and drop performance received’t seem till late in 2023.Windows Latest identified that the key improvement in the works requested by many – the flexibility to tug and drop apps onto the taskbar, to swiftly and simply create shortcuts to probably the most generally used applications – is nonetheless underway as beforehand rumored, with Microsoft testing the characteristic internally.

The phrase from sources at Microsoft is that this functionality will come to preview builds in a few months, however received’t arrive in the discharge model of Windows 11 till later in 2023 – it’ll come as a part of the 22H2 replace.This apart, Microsoft is additionally busy on minor fixes for the taskbar, and that features resolving a problem whereby the battery icon tooltip typically mistakenly reveals a cost degree above 100%. This repair has been utilized with the newest preview construct 22523 (which emerged a couple of weeks again), and so it ought to be delivered in a cumulative replace quickly sufficient.Other taskbar bug squashing in that preview construct contains fixing a problem the place app icons may overlap with the date and time show on secondary screens, and the answer for a gremlin with ARM64-powered PCs which prompted the taskbar’s core UI (search field, Start menu) to grow to be unresponsive.

Analysis: Microsoft dragging (and dropping) its heels – however higher late than by no means

The Windows 11 taskbar has drawn a lot of criticism for among the adjustments made by Microsoft in phrases of choices for tweaking this a part of the UI, and in specific dropping the drag and drop performance which is a easy and core a part of the Windows expertise, let’s face it.As to the timeframe of the potential return of this characteristic – and keep in mind, this is simply rumored, and solely the plans apparently underway at Microsoft at present (which may presumably change) – it’s a little disappointing that we could not get drag and drop again till a lot later in 2023, in concept.That mentioned, keep in mind that there isn’t a 22H1 replace, as Windows 11 has dropped to a once-per-year cadence for delivering main upgrades, but it surely’s a lengthy wait till what may very well be September or October 2023 (or probably even later) for this characteristic to make its much-requested return.

We had hoped that perhaps Microsoft may squeeze this transfer in with some sort of a characteristic pack replace beforehand – or online service pack as the corporate has renamed these with Windows 11 – but it surely appears not, and drag and drop will solely be in testing with regards to the near-term future.