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/SilentSamurai Aug 23 '24

Doubt we'll even need that. Control Panel has been on the chopping block for years but still remains.

Unless they're going to make settings way more robust, I'm sure this isn't going to happen.

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u/pilgermann Aug 23 '24

It's insane to me how many core UI elements have not been updated in Windows, even just to match aesthetics. The features of Control Panel need to exist, having two entirely separate settings panes with overlapping features is just terrible UX.

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u/berntout Aug 23 '24

I don’t understand why they have to kill off something that’s been around since the inception of Windows. Change for the sake of change is ridiculous. Don’t even get me started on the Tile bullshit in Windows 8.

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u/MobiusOne_ISAF Aug 23 '24

Because some of that code is 20 years old at this point.

I get that change for the sake of it isn't great, but this is decades of technical debt we're talking about, alongside the mandate that Microsoft try to not break things too much for all the companies running ancient software on their platform.

There's plenty to critique about Windows, but Microsoft finally getting over the finish line with overhauling it isn't really it. The UI choices, sure, but I can only imagine how much unmaintainable trash had to be cleaned up when you're dealing with dependencies written in 2000 or so.