Mikhail Parakhin, the CTO of Shopify and the former leader of Microsoft's Bing and advertising division, disclosed that he had voiced his dissent against Microsoft's move to eliminate the movable taskbar in Windows 11. In his view, a vertical taskbar, coupled with an auto-hide function, would offer the optimal productivity boost. Nevertheless, Microsoft ultimately opted to scrap this feature, adhering to a 'symmetrical panel' design ethos. Microsoft explained that in Windows 11, the taskbar components underwent a complete rewrite, with the legacy movable logic code being excised. Internal data indicated that this particular feature catered to a niche market, characterized by 'high complexity and minimal payoff.' Implementing it would necessitate a comprehensive technical revamp of spatial arrangements and window-snapping behaviors across the entire application ecosystem, rendering the engineering costs prohibitively high.