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In case you've ever wondered why the Windows control panel was so awful... (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, MS is basically stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can't innovate very fast because they're dragging a 30-year legacy code ball&chain around, but they can't even start to make something from scratch, because people would just use linux if there's no backwards compatibility.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As they point out at the end, this wasn't about the old control panel, but the new settings panel. It's all brand new code.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago

Yes I read it. It's brand new legacy code 😅