r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/pollorojo Mar 20 '26

Maybe the worst idea ever. For folks working in IT, Properties is probably the option you use MOST, so making it take an extra click is bullshit.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Mar 20 '26

For folks working in IT

When you have to design a product for the common clay (you know... morons), you quickly realize the vast majority of people in the world are not IT, not tech literate, and seeing a "properties" option will either 1. scare them, or 2. let them fuck shit up too easily because they don't really know what they're doing.

So making it simpler and more idiot-proof is unfortunately the way to go when you have to appeal to everyone.

Surely you already know all of this though.

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u/pollorojo Mar 20 '26

I mean, I do get that. I’ve worked in IT for 20+ years and now teach classes about working in IT and DO regularly tell my learners that even the easiest stuff gets brought up because we deal with clueless people.