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It's always people who think they know better, there'll be some know-it-all dev in the team saying "but there's a better / more modern way of doing this" and then the team finds themselves spending time rewriting code that worked fine.
*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***
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Exactly. You can't tell me that the old control panel development source code files aren't sitting on a server archive within MS that could be pulled into Visual Studio ( or whatever they use internally ), and the UI form re-done with updated looking assets. Or am I really missing something.
Just making it 'look' coherent throughout the operating system would have helped Win 11.
Everything feels like its being dumbed down.
Just making it 'look' coherent throughout the operating system would have helped Win 11.
Everything feels like its being dumbed down.
The underlying code is definitely still in existence - 1-2 people like Dave's Garage have had permission to do videos on some of it - but it is using old school Win32 programming C++ but using mostly C conventions and very fragmented in approach, etc.
That said it isn't some crazy task to go through it and pull out the core functionality and build a decent control panel on a more modern platform and style - ironically the harder part is probably wrestling with the moronic interfaces and methods used in more modern platforms like UWP to reimplement.
That said it isn't some crazy task to go through it and pull out the core functionality and build a decent control panel on a more modern platform and style - ironically the harder part is probably wrestling with the moronic interfaces and methods used in more modern platforms like UWP to reimplement.
