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.)
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.