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What surprises me is how little functionality the new settings app has, and how often to get things done, I need to click through to an older settings screen.
by rocqua 5y ago
What surprises me is how little functionality the new settings app has, and how often to get things done, I need to click through to an older settings screen.
Its not that they modernized the old settings / configuration screen. They made a new one that does about 1/3 of the job and still links to the old one for the last 2/3. It does not seem like Microsoft intend to slowly have the new settings setup subsume the old settings. Nor do they seem to want to improve the old settings. Instead we are left with a weird stack of settings screens.
- vidanay 5y agoThis is largely because "modern" design has such poor information density, it requires 15 different screens for a single screen of a "legacy" UI.
- WorldMaker 5y agoThey've made it pretty clear that to prioritize they've been following the 80/20 rule as best they can with the data they have. They try to prioritize the things people do most often in each iteration because they don't have the budget to do 100% of the things all at once. (And it probably is a waste of time to upgrade settings features that 0% of people use.) The big real complication is that data they have available on what is used 80/90% of the time is telemetry. It's not a coincidence that the people that find that the settings they use the most that haven't been converted are in the set of people most complaining about telemetry and most actively disabling it.
- pseudalopex 5y ago9 years and counting.