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>Stating that the UI consistency issues are due to backwards compatibility is stretching the truth to the point of outright deception. I am not familiar with W
by simion314 5y ago
>Stating that the UI consistency issues are due to backwards compatibility is stretching the truth to the point of outright deception.
I am not familiar with Windows APIs but I can see this be the truth if MS made it possible for developers to plug inside this dialogs, like a printer driver would plug soem GUI changes in the panels , changing this would break a lot of devices.
- jiggawatts 5y agoSure, and hence the logical thing to do is to create the new GUI side-by-side with the old one. That doesn't explain the non-extensible GUIs being left behind, or why the new uplifts are so piecemeal, or why they randomly leave out critical features.
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