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  • finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    8 hours ago

    TBF the task manager and those windows explorer dialogues were programed in like 1996 and it’s probably one of the best functioning feature in Windows so changing it too much carries high risks.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      7 hours ago

      changing it too much carries high risks

      This is such a Windows way of thinking and I can’t really explain it. Why does every other OS constantly change and evolve but Windows is like “can’t touch this code from a quarter century ago?”

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        I dare say, that 90% of all companies in Europe and US, use Windows. And lots of companies relies heavily on software built 20-30 years ago. Microsoft knows this.

        That’s why they are very reluctant to “touch that piece of code from a quarter century ago” because there’s probably a lot of software that would break without it. Software their target audience need.

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        6 hours ago

        I don’t see the problem with it. Microsoft historically does a great job of making everything worse with updates.

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        There is nothing in windows that’s a small tweak.
        Changing anything has implications to a banking business Joe somewhere, who’s program depends on the original feature working as it does, or one of the 16 layers of code is simply tangled in a way such change would require cascade of rewrites.

        I’ve read articles about various developments: working with regex registry*, or just adding a control panel option, and it’s an absolute nightmare.

    • danA
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      6 hours ago

      The current UI is very different to the original UI though.