Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines

Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by DanielHB on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:08AM (#50363437)

One thing that drives me nuts is just how they refuse to take the time and update all the settings pages to the new style. I don't hate the new style, in fact I think it is pretty okay (better than macos and KDE in some things, worse in others).

Like if you dig even slightly below the surface you get a dialog window straight from windows 95. Network settings for example, something I routinely have to deal with. It is absurd VPN companies make full-blown windows desktop software to tweak VPN settings on your PC because the default windows UI is so crap.

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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by xnx on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:56AM (#50363816)

There still a Windows 3.1 file picker in ODBC Data Source

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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by PaulKeeble on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:12AM (#50365801)

There is just so much of this old stuff on Windows that you run into if you need to do anything past the surface. So many old programs they just couldn't be bothered to rewrite to a new standard. Settings is what most people run into but the registry editor, all the permissions stuff, networking settings, the entirity of the control panel is a miss mash of different eras and on and on.

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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by ChoGGi on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:08PM (#50369312)

I like the old control panel; I don't use Explorer as my shell, so I can't use settings unless I close my shell and temp change it to Explorer.

I doubt there's many people using them, so I can see why they don't bother to support alternative shells.

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