News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support The Windows 11 Taskbar is very different from the one present in Windows 10, primarily because Microsoft is looking to “simplify” the UI. However, one missing feature in particular annoys me a lot.
Neowin readers who have been following my Windows 11 coverage in the past few months know that while I like many aspects of Microsoft’s latest operating system, there are a few things that I dislike about it too. There are several capabilities that were present in Windows 10 but have been ditched in Windows 11. However, there is one seemingly small missing feature that does bother me a lot when I’m using Windows 11. That is the fact that the clock flyout in the Taskbar no longer shows time to the precision of seconds. Let me be clear right off the bat, it’s not about me potentially missing out on a few important seconds of my life, it’s just that I don’t understand why Microsoft would remove this. It doesn’t occupy extra space on the Taskbar, it probably doesn’t consume a lot of resources, and the information is definitely there on the backend since it is being synced (unless you have set the time manually). It makes absolutely no sense to remove it. For many missing Windows 11 features such as Live Tiles, an updated context menu, and the Taskbar, I can at least try and rationalize why Microsoft would want to remove some functionalities.
