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Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They used to have people who knew what they were doing: https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

Now their UI team seems to just be two guys shitting in a bucket (shamelessly stealing that expression from KiraTV).

[โ€“] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing that post, it was super interesting.

I wish I could see behind the scenes in the Windows UI discussions, to see how we get to what we have today