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Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Let's wait for CEOs to learn about the mess of Program Files\Program Files (x86), and how the user directory is filled with links replacing deprecated folders making it unusable. Windows is more of the inverted Babylon tower of hell than a consistent and complete vision of a product, one layer is built on top of another like a patchwork of a clinically insane. That's with all their $billions, millions of workhours and a market monopoly.

9 circles of hell via Wikimedia

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's mostly because of backwards compatibility, and it's a blessing imo.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or a forward compatibility, since they weren't obliged to create these new paths, and they did, thus creating a problem for themselves.