![]() ![]() ![]() As you can see, only the non-system part of the notification area and the thumbnail preview still use the same technology as they did in earlier Windows versions, and I suspect that the thumbnail preview window might be migrated in the near future to get a UI with rounded corners like the other parts of the new taskbar.Īlso, I marked in red the tweaker’s options that have to be reimplemented from scratch, either because they depend on built-in functionality that is no longer available, or because they rely on implementation details that were completely replaced with a new implementation. In the image below I marked in red the parts of the taskbar which were reimplemented in Windows 11 using UWP controls, and in green – the parts that weren’t. The XAML Islands feature, available since Windows 10 version 1903, allows non-UWP desktop apps to host UWP ( Universal Windows Platform) controls, allowing to gradually modernize existing native apps without having to rewrite them completely. ![]() I spent some time this weekend looking at the taskbar of Windows 11, and below are my findings.Įven though the taskbar of Windows 11 looks fairly similar to the taskbar of Windows 10, just centered and with different colors and animations, the implementation of the visual part of the taskbar is completely new, written from scratch using a new technology called XAML Islands ( documentation, code samples). ![]() As with previous releases of new Windows versions, Windows 11 breaks compatibility with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, and even though Windows 11 wasn’t released yet and the first Insider Preview build was just released this week, users started to ask about compatibility of the tweaker with the new Windows version. Among the new features of Windows 11 is the redesigned interface throughout the operating system, which also affects the taskbar. About a week ago, on June 24, Microsoft officially announced the next version of Windows, Windows 11, the successor to Windows 10 which was released in 2015. ![]()
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