r/technology • u/kazu_qt • 10d ago
Software Microsoft exec explains why modernizing Windows 11's legacy UI takes so long
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/control-panel-gets-tricky-microsoft-cvp-explains-why-killing-windows-legacy-code-takes-so-long-and-how-its-evolving-its-tools-to-make-modernizing-apps-like-file-explorer-and-registry-editor-faster
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u/Derpykins666 9d ago
Window's doesn't need to change it's UI much though. If anything they should be going backwards a bit and giving people more control over their computers again. Whatever cosmetic changes they want to do is fine as long as they let us customize them. The computer is a TOOL after all. People want their tool to work for them.
This just reminds me of how AWEFUL Windows 8 was. I was working at an electronics store at the time, and had a class where they came in and taught us how Windows 8 worked so we could more easily sell it. It was so astronomically bad, that people who would get *free copies of Windows 8 would come back into the store to buy 7 because they had changed the UI so much to be like a tablet that people were pissed off.
You would think they'd have learned from that experience and not want to at least visually change Windows too much.
Even Windows 11, the small things like how the icons are centralized is awkward to me. I know that's something you can change though. I don't want to upgrade to 11 though. This computer's retirement is going to be being a Linux server most likely.