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I'm holding off for now mainly cause I keep my taskbar on the left side of the screen instead of the bottom, and that's no longer possible in Windows 11. Not in the mood to change, and not in the mood to find a workaround. But I probably will eventually update.

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Same here, 'tho I find putting it at the top of my screen most useful.

Utterly baffling that Microsoft would just casually remove this function - what possible gain is there to MS to remove this functionality that has been available for decades? Even if only 1% of us use it, that is still, of the 13 billion Win10 machines, that's 130 million.

That is a serious question - why the h** would they do this?

(of course there is also just the well-earned general suspicion about the stability and quality of any new MS product)

My exact status too, left-side taskbar. I can't understand the point of removing this option (to use any of the four sides of the desktop). I use both single-screen and dual-screen set-ups, and can't see where that should matter either.

Same here, upgraded HTPC's but can't do the same for workstations because of task bar being stuck at the bottom. I believe is one of those things that may come later, feels like Microsoft was rushing it out of the door and left things they considered non-essential for later (e.g. drag and drop to taskbar was confirmed to be coming too)

I keep it on the right side and if I needed a reason to NOT upgrade, well, this is it.

The strangest part about this is that it can still be moved with a Registry edit. So the functionality's still there, Microsoft just removed the toggle button for it. Very odd

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