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Best part is, that “feature” doesn’t exist in windows 11, they rolled that out knowing it would be gone in 6 months. Someone in marketing needed their win.



It also only works if the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen. I wanted to try it out and it took a long time to realize it wasn’t showing up because I use Windows with a taskbar on the top of screen.


Hehe, same. I thought I had the wrong version of Win10 and that's why I was lucky to not get it. Actually the whole Win10 version thing is a disaster, with the old SP names you could at least easily check, but iirc the 20H1 is not in the version string and upgrading is either completely transparent or completely opaque...


In the "About This System" page in Settings (System > About in the Settings hierarchy or it took over the Win+X > System shortcut from the old System Control Panel) under "Windows Specifications" header the Version field there has always exactly matched the "Feature Update Release Version" including things like "20H1". Getting that from an API is intentionally not straightforward (you have to convince Windows you know about the version you are asking about), but its pretty readable there in the Settings panel if you need it as a human.


Arguably they added that "feature" as a "preview" for 11's new take on Vista's (rarely used) Widgets panel (that moves Live Tiles from a place they are useful if configured right and get increasingly rare developer support to a place that pretty much guarantees their death), as all the junk in the Widgets panel that's not the dying Live Tiles seems to be the same junk news stuff in the annoying 10 "weather popup".




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