Windows 10: The old Control panel may soon be gone

In the article in the OP, I'm the one on Twitter (Rogers) with the old Windows logo as my profile picture. I started the whole discussion with Gabe Aul.

He couldn't be more wrong and more hypocritical.

If you've read the whole debate on Twitter, you would know that he mentions that having two implementations is not very "lean" and that having two increases "disk/mem usage".

First of all, Microsoft started this whole "two implementations" thing in Windows 8. Why is he talking as if it were a problem that Windows had since forever? MSFT started the whole problem that they're now trying to fix. Windows 8's "Settings app" only controlled a few things, and most people were okay with that because the rest of the settings were found in the good old Control Panel. So why is MSFT continuing to change things back to the "Settings app"? Hypocrites!

Second, what the hell does disk/memory usage have to do with the Control Panel? Is he joking? I couldn't tell.

Either way, if they remove the Control Panel, people will complain. Just like they did when Windows 8's start menu was removed in the Consumer Preview. People complained. Microsoft didn't listen. Then we know what happened.

So why is MSFT going back to making the SAME mistakes that they made around Windows 8's era?

Who the hell is in charge at Microsoft?????

 

Who cares ..
Start10 will do ... *Wink

 

Microsoft can do whatever they want with W-10, I really don't care. After a full month of W-10 I am perfectly happy running W-8.1 until 2023 and by then no one knows what the computing scene will look like. In the meantime, if and when W-10 offers me something that I need that W-8.1 doesn't provide I may reconsider but I am not going to reinstall W-10 just so I can say I am running W-10. After 1 month I saw everything I needed to see.

I don't think people really comprehend the extent of what MS means by OS as a service. It means less and less operator control over core functions. You have heard of "dumbing down the electorate" well MS wants to dumb down the users, kind-of-like McDonalds showing a picture of a hamburger and fries on a touchscreen order terminal, that's what the modern apps remind me of.*really

 

Microsoft can move everything, but unfortunately, the company puts these weak looking little gray links at the bottom of many of the main setting pages. These easy-to-miss links take you to the functions that enable the most customization and (IMO) usefulness. If Microsoft moved all the settings from the legacy (pre win10) Control Panel to Win10, finding what you want would be a nightmare! Hopefully we'll still have "God Mode" available. Since learning about it here in the forum, I'm using it more. Really neat. Hope it stays!

 

As long as they move all the settings over and not cut a lot of them out I don't really mind.

 

What does Start10 have to do with control panel?

 

I think we'll see Settings as the front end for all settings eventually. That's close enough.
For the advanced settings, I doubt Modern UI is as good as simply using the existing Control Panel applets. Maybe that's why they haven't been rewritten yet.

I note LeBlanc said 'eventually' and that translates to 'may soon'!

 

Now I am running 10565, the sound has failed. It's not obvious in any part of "settings", although it is still in control panel.

 

What bugs me about Settings is the bland way in which it is displayed. You would think that MSFT never heard of a colour display the way they use bland mono-tones. almost puts me to sleep.
The Control Panel is much more colourful and therefore easier to navigate.
Besides that, if they keep the functionality of the CP in Settings I won't complain.

 

I would like buttons "OK" and "Cancel" in Settings...

 

I can't stand this "Settings app" garbage... It's so irritating, buggy, and a mess.

 

I would also like to see a Save button so I can fuss with the setting then when I'm happy, click Save. As it stands now any change is immediately applied.

 

A lot better than the 8.1 apps at least you can move these life at a glance and put them in the order you want.
I have managed to collect them into 2 bundles instead of having them spread out, so well done Microsoft staff and testers for making them in my eyes a lot better.

 

What issues are you having with it? I'm very interested in finding out.

 

. . .same here. I find it easy to use, and not sure what bugs he is talking about. . .I think he is really just ranting. . .*Smile