I have Win 10 on my home desktop, and my work laptop came with Windows 11 installed. I was shocked that the taskbar was basically useless, and NONE of the features I used were available at all. Small icons? Gone. Full application title? Gone. prevent grouping of similar apps? Gone. System tray with all icons visible? Gone. I had to install a third party app just to make the damn taskbar usable to me. Why do they insist on REMOVING features?

This experience felt very much like Microsoft was trying to tell me "You are using the taskbar in a way that we don't like and you are wrong for it, but don't worry, we have removed those features so you can use it like everyone else does, regardless of whether you want to or how well it fits your use case and preferences!"

In fact, the only thing that seems like an upgrade in Windows 11 is that file search in Windows Explorer works all the time. Everything else feels like a downgrade.

Isn't this just the way of things with a lot of these startups over the last few years? Claim to have disruptive tech, get huge valuation and tons of investments, only to fail to figure out how to properly capitalize on it and end up resorting to ads to make money.

The problem with the term "UFO" is that it's poison. Historically and culturally, it has been misused interchangeably with "alien" for decades. You only have to watch a few minutes of Ancient Aliens to understand that when they say "UFO," they are indeed talking about little green/gray men, and not drones, sprites, auroras, STEVEs or any actual aerial phenomenon.

On a side note, I find the show hilariously offensive, in that it's basically telling us that we humans are actually quite stupid and not really responsible for our own technological advances, it was them damn extry terresticals!

Did you not see the announcement the other day?

It's the only way to be sure...or something

I don't believe it for a second. They also claimed they would be adding Substance Painter to CC, but that never happened. Adobe is an abusive monopoly.

I have 3 machines at home that will stay on Win 10 until support for it ends, but this is a new work machine that came with 11 on it.

I went through something similar back in 1998-1999, but the company WAS trying to do something legitimate, except they didn't count on everyone else figuring out how to do it. "It" being online billing. We got a lot of money invested, hired teams of developers, built a swanky new campus with miniature golf courses on all 3 floors and an amazing looking server room. I had a sign on bonus of like 10k shares that would vest in 2 years, struck at like $2.50 per share. Our IPO came 6 months later, and the stock shot up to $25 on opening day (I won a $50 bet with our CTO over this), and I was thinking "Man, life is great!"

A year later, we had lost a large number of clients, and our stock was hovering around $1.60 and it would have cost me money to exercise my stock because online billing is not a difficult task. A few years later and the company was gone completely.

I don't like having to do that and I don't want apps grouped AT ALL. I still have Win 10 devices that I also use daily, and I'd like to use them the same way and not have to think about it. Why the hell do they remove useful features in the first place?

The taskbar on Windows is COMPLETELY useless compared to Windows 10 for me. I want my small icons, no grouping and put the damn window names back! Having to click 3 times to get to a specific window is a PAIN IN THE ASS. Also, the stupid system tray does not show up at all on boot, I have to go into the settings for it and adjust *something* and then it's there. How does this shit get past QA? For reference, this is a brand new laptop that came with Win 11 on it.

You're right! I forgot that they didn't change the model number when they updated the look of the original C2N/1530 for the C64.

So... is this enough ants to ensure that at least some of them have identical DNA without being directly related?

The PET/VIC-20 1530/C2N tape deck worked just fine with the C-64 and C-128, but they did release a more modern looking one for the C-64 called the 1531.

First was a Commodore Pet, then the VIC-20, C-64 and finally an Amiga 1000. I still have several Commodore computers, including an A4000 Toaster Flyer.

FOUL! "irregardless" is now in the dictionary.