You dont even have to look at the code to see this. Just make one wrong click in a UI and youre directly getting dragged into a UI that hasn’t changed since Windows XP.
But that’s always a good sign that you’ve dug into the part that actually still works consistently! Once you pop some Windows 2000 era UI you know you’ve struck gold and need to note the path for next time (until Microsoft rearranges their settings for the 5th time this year of course)
Funnily enough I still look for the Control Panel before even attempting to find a setting in the Settings app.
The Control Panel is consistent, it works, and it hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile the Settings app gets rearranged every 2 months, with constant design changes, and it’s also terribly slow on low end devices and VMs.
It’s sad that Microsoft is “unifying” the Windows settings and killing the Control Panel in the process.
Some things should be replaced or updated to improve performance. However, I don’t think Windows has ever done anything of the sort, I certainly can’t think of any examples since Vista.
Show me how you never programmed anything without telling me
Software should be maintained, not built and forgotten about. Windows encourages the latter, which is just straight up bad practice
Fairly large chunks of Windows code are examples of the latter, in fact.
You dont even have to look at the code to see this. Just make one wrong click in a UI and youre directly getting dragged into a UI that hasn’t changed since Windows XP.
But that’s always a good sign that you’ve dug into the part that actually still works consistently! Once you pop some Windows 2000 era UI you know you’ve struck gold and need to note the path for next time (until Microsoft rearranges their settings for the 5th time this year of course)
Funnily enough I still look for the Control Panel before even attempting to find a setting in the Settings app.
The Control Panel is consistent, it works, and it hasn’t changed in years. Meanwhile the Settings app gets rearranged every 2 months, with constant design changes, and it’s also terribly slow on low end devices and VMs.
It’s sad that Microsoft is “unifying” the Windows settings and killing the Control Panel in the process.
But hey built and forgotten works great with vibe coding… 🎉🎉
No, Windows encourages backwards compatibility, which tends to cause code to e forgotten about.
Some things should be replaced or updated to improve performance. However, I don’t think Windows has ever done anything of the sort, I certainly can’t think of any examples since Vista.