> It's actually amazing how old Windows is, and how many vestigial bits of ancient GUI versions are still a part of the OS. This popped today: https://pr0gramm

> It's actually amazing how old Windows is, and how many vestigial bits of ancient GUI versions are still a part of the OS. This popped today: https://pr0gramm.com/top/6301382 https://pr0gramm.com/top/6301382 This is all modern examples but there are still bits hidden deeply within system that come from 9x times. I remember when MS published interface guidelines with Vista but the document was quickly forgotten and picture above shows all that mess. Personally, I remember almost all Ribbon UI changes and Windows Live brand "refreshes". There were community attempts to polish interface initiated by Long Zheng, an user experience entrepreneur from Melbourne : Aero and Win7 Taskforce where you could submit all these inconsistencies and provide mockups (if you were able to do so). I'm pretty sure there were people from MS who took this unique feedback into consideration and some suggestions were implemented but with Windows 8 and 10 all these efforts become meaningless.