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There was an 20 year old blogpost by an employee posted a few weeks ago outlining exactly this (and why they never chose to do it), commenters were disagreeing
by poisonborz 3y ago
There was an 20 year old blogpost by an employee posted a few weeks ago outlining exactly this (and why they never chose to do it), commenters were disagreeing writing it should be done but Microsoft would not dare to do this now anyways. Now it's here, and HN hates it.
- Xelbair 3y agoBecause since then situation in Windows changed, and there are already multiple control panels, with settings being spread around them in nonsensical way - and this one just adds a 3rd one. It really needs a complete rework of settings. And to be honest i like the split of default and poweruser settings.
- farigiss 3y agoMaybe that's what this is. A way to bring all those advanced settings from the Control Panel into the Settings window. Think of all those smaller unresizable windows that are a few hundred pixels wide and tall with the tabs at the top and the OK, Cancel, Apply buttons at the bottom. You know the kind. Those are in most cases advanced settings.
- rqtwteye 3y agoYou are too optimistic. It has been a very long time since MS has done anything coherent with Windows.