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Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. This sounds a lot like some PM type thinks they're gonna get rid of control panel, and they just don't know what all is actually in there.

And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

I don't think that the PM is wrong. They absolutely can get rid of the control panel. It's the user who will suffer ✌

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there would be a way to "embed" those old panel applets into the new settings somehow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I bet they at most remove control.exe or make it open the Settings app, but still allow launching old vendor .cpl items just like they already can be opened in Control Panel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is already implemented on a lot of the settings pages on 11.

Edit: just wanted to add I don't think well. I use it at work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Windows is king at being inconsistent 🔥

If only they had trained advanced users to use the CLI that would never change unlike the GUI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.

Can't think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm thinking of highly niche industrial and embedded products who are likely to be left behind.

A major traditional selling point for Windows has always been the backwards compatibility.