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A cool little known feature about the old Win95 (Win32API) dialogs and error messages was: one could press Ctrl + C to copy the text content. Sadly the devs wh
by frik 11y ago
A cool little known feature about the old Win95 (Win32API) dialogs and error messages was: one could press Ctrl + C to copy the text content.
Sadly the devs who created Windows NT, the Windows shell, Office in the 1989-1998 era all retired. And the overall high product of Microsoft products went downhill.
In 2006 with the Longhorn and WinFS debacle it was already clear that dotNet wasn't fast enough for desktop usage. Up to Windows 7 there were no dotNet desktop included, everything was in the good, trusted and fast C++. Now with development partly transfered to Microsoft India and another CEO you get a mess of UX/UI/privacy that is Win10 and WinRuntime. All the old programs with an old code base are still okay or goodm but I can't stand their newer development (written from scratch apps). Maybe it's a culture clash, maybe their QA process is wrong, maybe their vision.
- darksim905 11y agoThis has nothing to do with Windows NT vs new versions of Windows. In Windows 7 & above you can do the same thing but it's literally only for error messages.
- frik 11y agoWindows NT series. It should be common knowledge that Win 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008 Server, Win7, Win8, 2012 Server, Win10 (and XBox-OS, WinPhone8/10, HoloLens-OS, Azure cloud) are all NT based and just an incremental new version.