Insiders, they don’t like it. Bork the Taskbar, bork the Taskbar
Microsoft’s efforts to shed as much glory as possible with its Windows 11 release have continued with the sudden breakage of the Start Menu and Taskbar for its happy band of Insiders. The cock-up happened in the latest preview build of Windows 11,22000.176 for Beta Channel users and build 22449 for those lucky enough to still be in the Dev Channel. The Beta Channel release is supposedly the more stable of the pair. Affected Insiders found, according to Microsoft, « that Start and Taskbar were unresponsive and Settings and other areas of the OS wouldn’t load. » The result was a hurried update requiring those impacted to do a bit of Registry tinkering in order to get things back to normal. Naturally, social media commentators were as supportive as one might expect. Screenshots of Microsoft’s latest and greatest in distress were soon to be found across the web, showing Start Menu and Taskbar in various states of undress. With barely a month to go until the launch of the operating system (assuming your hardware is up to the job in the eyes of the Windows team) it isn’t a good look. One can’t help but remember the arrival of the file-munching Windows 10 October 2018 Update which combined both the Windows team’s legendarily terrible communication ability with an apparently slipshod approach to quality.
