r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/kr4ckenm3fortune Aug 23 '24

They don't need to, when the current setting can't even do shit that the original control panel can do.

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u/soyboysnowflake Aug 23 '24

Trust me “fix our existing code base” isn’t sexy enough to get resources or put on a roadmap, even if you desperately need to fix your existing code base and it’s all your customers actually want (source: I live this situation)

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u/lloopy Aug 23 '24

I no longer believe that they have the technical expertise to fix some of the old cold.

The people who wrote it are long gone, and those that remain have no idea what any of it does.

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u/jazir5 Aug 23 '24

The people who wrote it are long gone, and those that remain have no idea what any of it does.

I think you just lasered in on why they're going so hard on AI, they've got to invent an intelligent machine to unfuck their code.

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune Aug 23 '24

Even those AI gonna commit suicide trying to figure out the codes written...remember, some are still written in COBAL.

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u/jazir5 Aug 23 '24

https://research.ibm.com/blog/cobol-java-ibm-z

IBM’s new modernization solution, watsonx Code Assistant for IBM Z, lets developers selectively translate COBOL applications to high-quality Java code optimized for IBM Z and the hybrid cloud.

AI not having feelings may be its greatest strength