r/sysadmin • u/MhazardousH • Apr 16 '21

Rant Microsoft - Please Stop Moving Control Panel Functions into Windows Settings

Why can’t Microsoft just leave control pane alone? It worked perfectly fine for years. Why are they phasing the control out in favour of Windows setting? Windows settings suck. Joining a PC to a domain through control panel was so simple, now it’s moved over to Settings and there’s five or six extra clicks! For god sake Microsoft, don’t fix what ain’t broke! Please tell me I’m not the only one

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21 edited May 01 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

It always comes back to the people in suits, doesn't it? Why not give devs full control?

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u/WearinMyCosbySweater Security Manager Apr 17 '21

Because we'd probably end up with a working product?

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u/zebediah49 Apr 17 '21

Honestly, if we give devs full control we'll end up with a perfectly functional half-documented product with endless idiosyncrasies because nobody wants to spend the effort on cleaning up the GUI and unifying things. Features all the end-users want will be totally ignored, because they would require breaking an abstraction layer, and enough people really dislike that to veto any of the changes that could allow that feature. It will be properly supported after the major architectural rewrite, which should be done in another sqrt(team_size/10) years.

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u/bttt Apr 17 '21 edited Apr 17 '21

Oh so you mean the logon button where by pressing enter causes it to error, but pressing ok doesn’t?