If you're willing to use a third-party program, however, you can make the taskbar look and act like almost anything you want.

The new Run dialog box is longer than the old one and, perhaps because it’s still in testing, covers over part of the taskbar. As with the classic one, you invoke it by hitting Windows key + R. Note ...

Windows 11's latest preview build has provided a clearer look at some of the nuts and bolts of how AI agents will work in the OS, and it introduces a number of other changes as well.