And whatever they miss in the third option they’ll shove it in a fourth one then a subsequent version they’ll do some infuriatinng consolidation between the two that will drive users mad even more, the tutorials will be pointing users to all sort of methods that no longer work. That’s the way Windows’s been. Every other 2 iterations they eventually got it working but the disaster inbetween was the most frustrating experience. No wonder people held onto older version of windows until they no were no longer supported. Upgrading wasn’t worth the wased time most of the time
This is the problem they need to fix. Two different looks, with the modern look removing needed functionality, sacrificing functionality for UI goodness.
As of the current release, the only things left in the old Control Panel are things that seem to be adjusted by external programs. For example, the touchpad driver for my laptop exposes itself through a tab on the old Mouse control panel.
Pretty much everything is in the Settings app now, though it was missing a whole lot of stuff back at launch years ago. Every single setting is searchable, which I find to be a vast, vast improvement.
“finish migrating the UI; it does not require yet another UI overhaul.”
They have been working on this now for 8 years without much progress. For any serious work you still to know if the setting is in the old control panel or the new. I don’t think they are even trying to clean up.
They are moving the functionality to new experience piece by piece.
I wonder if anybody back in the Windows 8 days was even able to estimate how much work all this means. Many of the control panel applets have been there for ages so they must have lot of legacy stuff inside them. Also the modern UI is totally different experience, so they likely ended up rewriting a big part of code.
