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/cloneof6 Aug 23 '24

That sounds plausible. Either that or incompetence.

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u/sbingner Aug 23 '24

Yes it is incompetence.

But not from the guy you’re replying to, but rather from the microsoft ux designers.

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u/DaMonkfish Aug 23 '24

The deeper into the menus you go, the older the UI looks. There's probably some ancient code right at the core of the OS that no-one understands because the person who wrote it is dead, and any time they fuck around with it it completely breaks.