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Microsoft to kill Windows Control Panel in favor of Settings app (tomshardware.com)
4 points by thesuperbigfrog on Aug 23, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


On one hand the old Control Panel is a gawdawful mess because some of it is still running the same code as NT 4 and Win 95. On the other hand a new settings "app" is way too likely to wind up like

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/%E2%80%9Cdisappointing...

Maybe Copilot will stick around and be able to tell me how to change things with regedit or the policy editor when "you can't get from here with the new 'app'"

Most of all don't call it an 'app'. 'App' is too closely associated with the dumbing down and infantialization of mobile apps. I'm using Windows because I don't want to use a phone, avoid terminology, user interface devices and anything that has to do with phones.




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