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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)
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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] BitSound@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's some even older UI bits buried around in there:

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago

At some point last year I had a Japanese program launch a popup window that was clearly from pre-NT Windows. So bizarre.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

That looks to be an Access prompt, from the MS office suite. If you've ever written a macro you know how ancient the UI looks behind the scenes with those apps, and this isn't even a main line office app since it deals with databases and they push excel to work with sets of data like that.

So yes it's a Microsoft product, but it's not really native Windows and it's not an app that makes a lot of sense to spend a lot of time developing.

Just for accuracy's sake. I'm certain there are better examples.

Anyways, I'm perfectly fine with dated UI as long as it's efficient and does what it's supposed to do. If they perfected this stuff way back when you had one chance to ship out a working product, is it really necessary to reinvent the wheel just for aesthetics? Cause that's how you get a neutered settings app instead of a fully functional control panel.