• rtxn@lemmy.world
    50·
    3 months ago

    …maybe it’s better that the Windows source code remain closed.

    At the same time, I’d love to see the developers of the world glimpse at that eldritch cognitohazard and collectively go insane.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
    42·
    3 months ago

    I don’t think this is legit because even as I was reading it, I was expecting it to sound a lot worse than it ended up sounding. Like, it didn’t sound great or anything, but it didn’t sound nearly as fucked up as I would expect firsthand descriptions of piled-on legacy code to sound after almost 50 fucking years.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      3 months ago

      But did you read the last line? This isn’t classic control panel, this is the new control panel.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 months ago

      Yeah this is classic legacy code.

      Complicated code is when 700 projects are all entangled and when you add a 3D bar for measuring purposes (it was just a bar like 100 nanometers long so you could get a feel for size in 3D scans, in the 3D viewer), the up (not the down) mouse scroll stopped working for sliders in all the 2D GUIs…

      That is crappy code and I was there when we got that bug (Avizo software).

  • HStone32@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 months ago

    I’ve heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

    • PullPantsUnsworn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Windows Vista had lot of changes to the kernel. Windows 7 relaxed security features introduced in Vista. But nothing changed after that. They have been slapping ugly UI on top of existing kernel.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

      Windows NNT when? Surely from a business/competition perspective they can’t let Linux get that many years ahead of them in terms of kernel optimisations?

  • gaael@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    Is this real? It’s funny af, even if it’s not real, but does anyone know if it is?

  • sfxrlz@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    So that’s why they shipped like every past systems’ control windows with every new version. Not for people’s convenience. Because of spaghett