User response to Windows 11 has not been what Microsoft expected. Small issues and design decisions have annoyed some users and it seems Redmond wants to fix these fringes.
What apunta The VergeThere is a new update for Windows Insiders that addresses some of these complaints by adding a clock and date to the taskbar on multiple monitors.
Apparently there are users with more than one monitor who had complained that the date and time are not displayed in the taskbar of their secondary monitors, only in the main one. This led some of these users to use third-party applications to fix it but it seems that Microsoft will include an official option that adds time and date information to multiple monitors.
Setting the start menu
The Verge also reports that a new Insider build (it’s unclear if the update and the new build are the same) that gives more settings in the start menu for shortcuts and app recommendations.
The Start menu is one of the most used elements in Windows, so there are people who want to keep it the same for centuries and centuries. Any change bothers them, as it happened with Windows 8. Now Windows 11 has brought some changes that these noisy users do not accept.
The Settings application has also been expanded to offer more options than normally found in Control Panel, including network discovery and printer sharing. This is part of Microsoft’s plan to phase out Control Panel, a basic part of Windows since its inception.
Removing a feature that some people have been using for 36 years can cause even more friction between Microsoft and those users. That’s why the Redmonds have been doing a slow migration of tools from the Control Panel to the Settings app.
Analysis: solving the little problems
The changes in Windows 11 have frustrated many Windows 10 users, but it must be recognized that Microsoft has listened to your comments and added options that allow those users to modify those changes and make things work as in Windows 10.
This is a good measure: Give those noisy users more options but go ahead, because there is more than likely a silent majority of users who either like the changes in Windows 11 or absolutely don’t care.
They still have work to do. Some of the more annoying and puzzling changes in Windows 11, like the inability to drag and drop app shortcuts to the taskbar, have yet to be fixed (although apparently Microsoft is working on a fix to that as well).
As we already wrote in our Windows 11 review, the new operating system is a work in progress. This is a good thing. If there is something in Windows 11 that you don’t like, be patient. Microsoft may be able to give you the option to change it in a future update.
