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Classic Shell is now unmaintained because MS kept iterating and breaking the APIs being used for it.
by rincebrain 8y ago
Classic Shell is now unmaintained because MS kept iterating and breaking the APIs being used for it.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThe maintained version is Open Shell: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
- acqq 8y agoLooking their commit history, all the last "fixes" were rebranding. If I see it right, the latest substantial fix that is an actual improvement was: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/issues/53 https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/issues/53 A patch by Ivo Beltchev himself! In the just world the man would be paid by Microsoft until the end of his life just for what he did up to now. The critical fix before that was important and made by the new maintainers: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/pull/33 https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/pull/33 It also shows that it's a real work keeping everything functioning with each Windows release.
- rincebrain 8y agoThe problem is, Microsoft Does Not Want to support people using older versions or things which permit emulating older versions. They saw what happened when they let people drag their feet on XP to avoid change, and are seeing it happen with 7, and have been scorched-earthing everywhere to avoid this recurring. That and being fed up with {customers coming to them having cherry-picked individual patches they thought were important from WSUS and then having unreplicable issues, users who just outright disabled updates of any severity} were why 10 is now a rolling release One Big Patch you cannot permanently disable updates for. It's a shame, because from a technical standpoint, Windows 10 has a lot of things I like, but from a usability standpoint, it's sometimes worse than Vista.