By Simon Batt
Publication Date: 2026-02-14 07:12:00
Summary
- Windows 11 limits Taskbar customization—moving it to the screen sides is missing.
- Microsoft may restore Taskbar side-placement as it shifts focus to Windows 11 maintenance.
- Ex-Microsoft exec Mikhail Parakhin says he fought to keep Taskbar options; macOS copied the Taskbar.
If you ask me what my biggest complaint with Windows 11 is, it’s that it doesn’t give you a lot of options to customize the Taskbar. Now, I have never coded a programming language before, nor will I probably ever, but I don’t feel likecoding up a feature that allows people to move the Taskbar to whatever side of the screen they like isn’t particularly…