Comment by layer8

19 hours ago

It’s about time that Raymond Chen starts ranting about the increasing amount of UI inconsistencies and loss of formerly ubiquitous features. (Or maybe I missed previous installments.)

The absurd UI inconsistencies ushered in with Windows 8 were a big part of my I moved back to macOS and Linux.

If I want a dozen different UI toolkits and three different settings apps in my day, Linux has that covered, with a lot more freedom and reliability.

The days when everything was WinForms were glorious.

I suspect there are reasons he doesn't talk much about anything newer than about Windows 8.

  • Apparently he also has a MASSIVE backlog of scheduled posts, so it's possible the queue hasn't caught up yet

    • Disclaimer: I left Microsoft in 2007. At that time he had several years of posts in an internal queue that you could comment on.

    • Ah yes, Microsoft’s “we care…………to talk about problems we’ll never fix” poster boy. Dude might be a fantastic developer, but he’s being used as a sock puppet.