Comment by MillenialMan
4 years ago
>The reason why Windows is full of UI inconsistencies is (largely)
...completely unjustifiable?
Come on, why does this mean we need 5 different sound dialogues to do 5 different things? That's ridiculous on every level. It used to all be in one place anyway, so it's not even like it needs to be spread out in the first place. Make the old dialogues inaccessible, hide them, and create a new one which does all of those jobs. Then get rid of the old, now unused ones at the first opportunity.
Is the explanation really backwards compatibility, or is it lack of organisation?
Or they could just stop screwing with it?
Every windows update makes the strips a function from the control panel and ads something not quite as good to the settings app.
After the last update the settings app even has ads for 'bing rewards points' in it. Which appear to be impossible to remove.
I need to look harder at getting one of the commercial versions of windows that only gets security updates, but no feature updates, because I've come to hate and fear upgrades.
They've made a mess, they should clean it up.
I get it, all practical evidence seems to be that they're completely incompetent and this is impossible and any attempts to clean it up will inexplicably make it worse, but the fact that's the state of affairs at a two trillion dollar company is absolutely ridiculous.
The updates/upgrades on Windows 10 were particularly bad- i was a late adopter and still ran into an unfixable black screen on startup. not good.