Windows 11 22H2: The taskbar will remain inflexible in the future

Even after the autumn 2022 update aka Windows 11 22H2 (“Sun Valley 2”), the new taskbar of the operating system, which contains many innovations, remains inflexibly positioned at the bottom edge of the screen, or rather, fixed. Microsoft claims to have relied on the collected telemetry data when making the decision.
Taskbar stays fixed and solid
As the developers from Microsoft did during a live tech community event on the official YouTube channel of Windows IT Pro have announced, the positioning of the new Windows 11 taskbar, which is also much discussed within the ComputerBase community, will also be retained with “Sun Valley 2”, i.e. the autumn 2022 update.
Microsoft sees the bottom edge of the screen as the optimal position for the taskbar and sees its opinion confirmed by the telemetry data from Windows users.
The goal was to be really data-driven about what to include, what to put off for later, or what not to include.
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Icon area is adjusted to touch
Positioning at the top, left or right edge of the screen is now and will only be possible with the help of third-party software. As the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22563 showed for the first time, the taskbar is also designed more for touch, which in turn means that the icons in the dedicated system area of the panel can no longer be dragged and dropped into or out of the hidden area. or let go.
If you want to use this function and show or hide icons in the system tray, you must now go to the “Taskbar Settings”. The questions asked by the development team were previously posted by Microsoft on the official sub-reddit r/Windows11 been selected.
During the approximately 50-minute video, the developers also go into the new customizable folders in the start menu and talk about the optional tablet-optimized taskbar.
Users, including those in the ComputerBase forum, have repeatedly called for the grouping of open applications in the taskbar to be reintroduced. Microsoft has not yet commented on this.
In the video, the developers emphasize several times that they have concentrated on the functions that are used the most according to the evaluation of the telemetry data from Windows 11 and Windows 10.
Necessity is the mother of invention
In particular, the inflexible taskbar and the heavily trimmed start and context menu helped tools such as Start11, the ExplorerPatcher and ElevenClock to a small revival. The fall 2022 update is expected to be released in October of this year.