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fyrstormer
Copper Contributor
Feb 09, 2022

Combining buttons for running applications makes sense in a VERY NARROW RANGE of highly-restricted UI scenarios, such as running on a very low-resolution screen for some reason, but FORCING everyone to use this setting with no option to change it is IDIOTIC. There is no scenario in which it's faster to examine the toolbar to figure out which icon corresponds to the application you want to focus on, click that icon, examine the list of open windows to figure out which one corresponds to the task you want to focus on, and then click on the appropriate thumbnail. Uncombined taskbar buttons has ALWAYS been faster from a productivity standpoint. My company employs over 30,000 people and I have confirmed with our IT department that they refuse to upgrade anyone to Windows 11 until this STUPID design is fixed.

  • Rocko262c's avatar
    Rocko262c
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 09, 2022

    I just logged into Feeback Hub and as of 9 Feb 2022 there is only 8,497 upvotes. That is only an increase of ~2,000 upvotes from 13 Jan 2022 (6,556 upvotes). This is not a significant amount of upvotes for Microsoft to take action nor is this very small increase anything significant.

     

    With this data and the lack of response from Microsoft, I have taken 1.5 days to back everything up, uninstall Win 11, install Win 10 and get my emails in Outlook all synced and functioning. This was a pain and really left me doing extra work for nothing. I will now opt out of this group and will make sure that none of my computers ever touch Win 11 again.

     

    Summary: Win 11 is super counterproductive, ungrouping windows is unproductive and time consuming, the inability to drag files to the taskbar and use that file with other programs is super inefficient. My children all hate Win 11 too. Uninstall Win 11 and reinstall Win 10. 

    • Funkhauser's avatar
      Funkhauser
      Brass Contributor
      Feb 09, 2022

      Rocko262c 

      You might find it interesting that the number of upvotes actually fluctuates significantly up and down on this topic.  I've been keeping a record:

       

       UpvotesComments
      09 February 20228497952
      21 January 202211257833
      17 January 20226774815
      12 January 202210183741
      10 January 20229876718
      30 December 20215313642
      21 December 20214852590
      15 December 20217549558
      06 December 20214245460
      02 December 20216496416
      23 November 20213692321

       

      • Funkhauser's avatar
        Funkhauser
        Brass Contributor
        Feb 22, 2022

        Funkhauser 

         

        Today's upvotes are 14,478:

         

         

        It'll be back down below 10,000 in a day or so.  I still don't understand why it fluctuates...

         

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