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Can you install thid 25 year old program?
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A lot of windows UI is 30 years old
Pretty sure Windows has more legacy components than Linux just because no nerds are updating it in their free time
Windows has a lot of legacy components, because there's this Fortune 500 corporation which still depends on it in 2023. Say what you want about Windows, but its backwards compatibility is unmatched. Windows also had 32-bit x86 CPU support until Windows 10, meaning that it could still run some 16-bit Windows 3.0 apps.
Windows is also a clusterfuck of spaghetti code that only the most masochistic person would want to tackle. There's so much legacy stuff in there it's ridiculous. For example you can't name a file com because of the DOS days when a COM file allowed you to access the Serial ports.
It's updated by the entreprise not users
Exactly. Profit is the only thing that matters, so things only change if they'll increase profits.
Then why are they acting like they want to gain less profits ?
More ads/data harvesting gives you more profit
Enterprise keeps what works. Why make it new?
New UIs drive sales up, that's why they refresh the UI every few versions.
Always jarring when you open a folder dialog, and an unresizeable chunk of Windows 3.1 suddenly appears.
I know it's still in the ODBC settings, probably other places too.
No, literally. 11 still has some pre-XP dialog boxes. The framework they were written in obviously too (+at least 11 more).
This framework is part of Win32API. It's still maintained and is a core API set.
And there will be a riot if they try to change it
There already was one... Does anyone remember Windows 8?
it wouldn't be so bad if the change wasn't objectively worse
I throughly enjoyed windows 8. Having a side screen with all programs in a fully customizable area was great
This bothers me a lot and also applies, to some extent, to MS office software. If you go deep enough you end up in the same old clunky UI that actually did the job.