I found this post to be a great complement to my hobby of collecting/documenting all the feature flags used in the Windows operating system for the past three y

I found this post to be a great complement to my hobby of collecting/documenting all the feature flags used in the Windows operating system for the past three years. [1] It's proven to be a reliable source of what's to come in future builds of Windows, sometimes to the chagrin of teams unfamiliar with the public facing artifacts generated by their experimentation <grin>. Windows (what ships inbox, that is), as of last week (Sep 14) [2], has roughly 2500 feature flags. Some are permanently jammed into the on position, some off position, and the rest are configurable by its experimentation frameworks and hackers. (Apps are a separate beast, have their own experimentation tooling, their own flags, etc.) I don't understand why the jammed-on features still exist in the OS. I'd imagine there will (eventually?) be a measurable impact to leaving all this trash behind. I suspect, like the author noted, it's non-zero risk work that no one wants to complete. [1] https://github.com/riverar/mach2/tree/master/features https://github.com/riverar/mach2/tree/master/features [2] https://github.com/riverar/mach2/blob/master/features/20215.txt https://github.com/riverar/mach2/blob/master/features/20215....