The State of Windows

Fun fact: The dial modem dialogue box is here since Windows 95 and has never been touched since

Microsoft should focus a little more on this issue. Luckily people started noticing this and thanks to that there are now several improvements to insider builds, like the redesigned notepad or updated volume flyout, although it would have been better not to rush the launch and ship the os when it is really ready.

Since Windows 8 (a decade) they want to modernize the UI but the only thing they have achieved is more and more inconsistency in each new system and duplicate apps. It's disappointing to see basic parts of the system that don't respect the dark mode or not being updated since Vista :(

I feel like Microsoft has huge management issues. There are definitely some extremely talented people willing to rewrite all of the code from scratch, but their managers have different priorities. I think that's one of the benefits of opensource, it's not really plagued by corporatism.

I think code reuse is ultimately fine if it leads to a better experience and allows devs to fix and update core systems more heavily, but from my experience Microsoft isn't very interested in doing that either. They very much want to repaint over everything and act like it's brand new while only tweaking a few things in the background. I feel like when it comes to UI stuff in particular is just that Microsoft has never really been a forward facing company and doesn't really plan for the future. So many default apps are written in such a way that they handle their own look and feel independently, rather than using a core theme engine. This is also why Windows doesn't really support themes in any meaningful way. Unlike linux apps that either utilize gtk, kvantum, or libadwaita and can be themed at a system level. But Microsoft doesn't seem interested in going back and refactoring their code base, (probably because it would possibly break backwards compatibility or just be too expensive to actually do at this point), while continually applying more and more coats of paint with every release. This is a problem that is only going to get more and more difficult as it's ignored.

Also, the low battery screen is from win 8 and covers your entire screen

Prior to 8, I believe Microsoft used the approach where they'd add onto or change existing windows features. Meaning that they'd either completely rework something (windows update) or they'll update (control panel).

After Windows 8 however. They essentially started to become lazy. Instead of updating features of Windows so things stay consistent. They started essentially layering new features ontop of Windows. A few of those Windows 7 remnants can be found as far back as Windows NT, but since MS use to update the grathics system wide back in the day. It was far less noticeable.

I've noticed this ever since I used my first Windows PC. It ran Windows 98 even that had remnants from Windows 3.1. I first used a Windows XP laptop when I was about 6 years old. I remember using Microsoft Works on it (the crappy cheap word processing and spreadsheet suite) and seeing how much it looked similar to Windows 98 interface I'd previously used. Even young kids know what they're doing - they don't fool anyone.

There are some stuff in this video that either have already been fixed or have a fix coming :

- 1:20 The calculator did get updated to match Windows 11's design. I don't know why Windows 11 comes with the old calculator pre-installed but it should get updated to the new version automatically shortly after you install W11.
- 2:31 That flyout has been redesigned for the upcoming 22H2 update. It should have been redesigned way earlier but at least they have worked on it. Can't say the same for the Wi-Fi flyout though
- 5:30 Task Manager has an updated version coming too with dark theme support, Mica elements, the accent color being used instead of orange and layout changes.
- 6:02 Same goes for the volume and brightness flyouts; their design and even position have been changed.
- 6:35 They updated the design of this dialog but scrapped the redesign for the time being, apparently due to the feedback saying the updated dialog was slow or buggy
- 8:06 This has been changed too. The new animation is kinda similar to the old one but also quite different
- 12:31 MS Paint has been updated and the updated version is available to everyone already. It's functionally the same program but its design is quite different and Microsoft has promised to update it further to add stuff like dark theme support


Windows 11 was released in a pretty dumb state but at least Microsoft is actually working on fixing some inconsistencies this time around instead of completely ignoring most of them like they did back in the Windows 10 days

Employees: We need new features and looks for our new windows!
Microsoft: Okay just code some extra stuff into our existing OS and we'll call it a day. Here's your paycheck.

It's a mystery to me how you can intentionally keep legacy code and just add new features without making the whole development process extremely tedious.

Not to mention the wasted space, the old assets must be taking up gigabytes of storage space

I think that of instead of putting ads into their paid software, Microsoft should focus on updating the UI.

Windows 11 is a mixed feeling for me, however very relieved to see they're actively improving it to make it actually separate from 10. Doesn't excuse the fact that they didn't delay it though

It's worth noting the latest insider builds have fixed things like the dated volume UI, and will probably ship in 22H2. But it's such a disgrace that the OS has essentially shipped unfinished this way and we're expected to just accept it for a year until they "patch" it like a AAA game.

5:28 Actually in the Beta and Dev channel, with the new releases the task manager has undergone quite a big change, now featuring a dark theme, and a vertical bar instead of the horizontal one
- - Edit
6:14 The volume rocker is now horizontal in the low centre of the screen, just above the taskbar

well, it's always been like that, Microsoft stacking a new version on top of the older one. i think it's been like this since the development of XP.

In my opinion Windows 7 was like a nice and polished house with all the tools you need organized very well. Newer versions are like if someone went to that house, took half of the tools and threw them in a giant pile in the corner of the basement, because they want the house to look "clean". And then they lock the door to those tools and buy shitty replacements for some of those tools. And then they rip out and burn every curtain, table cloth or anything that looks nice to make it more "minimalistic".

Thanks for reading my rant

I use magnifier day to day on w11 because of visual disabilities, I really wish they did whatever mechanism they use for it better, because if the cursor is overwritten by anything like a game or an editor if they do custom rendering, it stops following my mouse altogether and it gets really frustrating. There's a lot of weird fucked up quirks with it and it's kind of upsetting that they don't give much support for it, but I've come to terms with that a long time ago.

Here's why a lot of people (including me) are considering Windows 7 as the last good version of Windows before MS destroys everything starting with Windows 8.

Microsoft be like: Guys, I have an idea for Windows 11, lets have rounded corners and new icons, that will work!

Lets not speak about the memory leak that causes by dwm because the "new" animations and cricled windows and some transparent things. Also the photos app is have a memory leak too. Thank you Microsoft for releasing a half complete beta os with a lot of memory leaks.

4:12 Heyyy Microsoft, why is the QR Code BLUE? And why does the text also look BLUE? Don't tell me they used a terrible paintbucket tool.
7:20 Win7 Style Arrows!
8:37 Win7 Basic because that's what it's built on.
10:15 That's the same tray as in Windows 10.
11:05 No change at all.
11:14 Wow that just looks like a typical Win7 progress bar except it's not got that fade.
11:21 Haha pretty sure the clock is the same
11:29 Sheesh, those icons!
11:45 3D textboxes! Look like they were made out of Python Tkinter or smth
13:06 Gosh, that looks so 1990-esque!

I actually got so frustrated with 11 that I reinstalled to Windows 10 on my laptop. I'd do it to my desktop, but it's too well setup for that.
The age of everything is connected has given companies a way to simply shove out a broken product and patch it all up later.
They didn't have that luxury before the Internet was as prevalent, so if say WIndows 95 was broken on launch, that would ding the reputation of WIndows, so they had to get it right or the consequences would be dire.
Today, they just press buttons and the update is automagically distributed.

The spinning dots in the boot sequence actually become a spinning line in later versions

me and my father have always been saying this for maybe two or three years. I believe there's still even some stuff from the DOS era too that might be there if you look hard enough.

Why can't they just take the route that DE's like KDE Plasma take and just let me customize window appearance and whatnot? Nobody would complain about the awful changes (since you can easily revert it) and they're ALREADY DOING THIS WORK ANYWAY.

note: many of them are fixed in later versions of Windows 11 such as 23H2, like the menus that pop out on the lock screen.

None of these are "mistakes" or "incompetence" on Microsoft's part. They themselves have said that Windows has become just a tool to enforce subscriptions, data collection and ads on their users, like mandatory Microsoft account, telemetry that you can't disable, ads on folders, Candy Crush, Edge being default even if you don't want it, XBOX Game Pass, OneDrive, Microsoft Office... the list goes on. Why would they waste their resources on making a good operating system, if they'll use it only to get people to pay for their stuff?
Anyway, I upgraded to Linux when Windows 11 first came out, and now my computer is better than ever. I strongly recommend it to everyone.

It's been this way the whole time. Yes, it's more obvious in Windows 11 (especially since Winver reports it as Windows NT 10.0 still, that's the killer.) But from the things you've shown in the video, then Windows 11 is just Windows NT 4.0 with a prettier UI. It's also XP and Vista and 7 and 8 and 8.1. The Windows 7 Basic theme still exists in 11, as well as the Windows Classic theme. And also Aero Lite from Windows 8. Guess Microsoft is just finally seeing the effects of having layered on top of an OS since 1996...

Well, to be fair, they could've turned WordPad into a straight-up Office advertisement, but they didn't, and I commend them for that.

In 23H2, the scan and fix menu shown at 7:18 is still Windows 7
The Recovery Menu shown at 8:24 is still the same as it was before
The eject menu shown at 10:20 is still the same
Some stuff hasn't been fixed in almost 2 years
Other than those things listed, many of the things shown in this video have been fixed, most notable being massive changes to MS Paint including layers and support for transparency (finally)
Although they may have finally changed it in 24H2, with all the bugs and Recall, I'm not sure it's even ready for a production environment

As per usual. Interesting content, genuine Microsoft failures, great music. Could not be better, Andrew. Amazing vid.

Fun fact: At 11:20, in Windows 11, if you look closely at the clock, you will notice that the background square of the clock image is a slightly shade of white to the background of the window. The clock is pure white, but the window background is slightly darker.

And several of those you mentioned have been updated to match Windows 11 design on latest Dev channel.

backwards compatibility for consumers is just a bonus
the thing is, some companies are relying on software that sometimes is just as old as windows is

I find it funny that Microsoft is happy with the "Dark Mode"... how hard it it to update your UI so all the things in the OS works properly with dark mode?

I can't use Windows anymore, it's just so low effort and looks like crap. While not perfect Gnome and KDE are quite a bit better than that mess.

When I'm writing this comment, about 40-60 percent of the video is now outdated, some of the legacy apps liks the phone, modem etc which no one uses anymore are still untouched but paint, volume keys and most other things shown here have been updated now. A lot of windows 8 UI features are also removed now. But not completely yet.

Here’s the most probable reason why they didn’t update these leftovers: $atya Nadella is focusing on making Windows more Window$ with M$ $tore, UWP and touchscreen-friendly UI (which simply makes people buy $urface) instead of removing things from older windows versions

Stayed true to Windows since Vista. Moved onto 7, skipped to 10, and upgraded to 11 in 2021. It made my (honestly sad) Ryzen setup cry so hard that I finally decided to pull the trigger and use Linux full time, after previously only having it as a dual-boot. (people telling me to call it GNU/Linux can kiss my...) Biggest breath of fresh air since downgrading my 2012 XPS 13 to Windows 7 from Windows 10 (RIP that laptop)

Some of these I can forgive like the volume rocker and the prompt to chose a default program, but some of these like the control panel still being there. It's been 7 years Microsoft, just finish moving all of the settings and remove it already.

With Windows 11 Microsoft had the chance to rewrite Windows completely; since Windows 11 won't run on "older" computers anyway (or is what MS intends) i can't see a reason why not do it.

11:21 Love how the Date and Time dialog clock design originates from the pre-reset Longhorn builds...
To be fair, they've come up with a replacement, but it's odd they kept this deprecated feature when happily deleting other applets like the Taskbar settings dialog or Windows Help

4:10 this happened to me multiple times while using a lot of resources, with out even trying I found out that windows 11 is just re textured windows 7 with a few "improvements".

Personally I think it's cool that there are older bits retained in newer versions

I'm pretty sure they've carried that OOBE menu somewhere from Windows 10. That menu, wherever it's hidden, is a remnant from Windows 3.1!

4:14 I remember I would spam F11 and it would glitch into a loop forever and you can see 7 basic (wish It was a theme)

There's still dialer.exe which is leftover of Windows 95! Also MTP file transfer is one of the most annoying things out there

On the dev build of insider preview, they actually changed volume and brightness controlls.

1. I seriously adore this fox background
2. You’re always hitting me with old Geometry Dash famous tracks
3. Windows 11 is pulling a Vista

When you go into ODBC Data Source Administrator (32-bit), click the Add button, then select the first item from the list, uncheck Use Current Directory, and press Select Directory, you'll get a Window taken straight from Windows 3.1

alright gotta be honest, while this is a very interesting topic that I would love to watch passively while I work, the subtitles absolutely kill me on this.

Please make a narrated version of this.

Do you really expect Microsoft to change the UI of every single app for a new release? That's way too much work IMO. Consistency is good, but it'll take a while to get there.

When Enderman uses NK - Nine Circles as his first song of the video.

idk if anyone else has noticed this, but theres two types of dialog boxes. one that has the new style, and one that looks identical to the win 9x style, just with a modern color

4:38 I like how the edges are badly antialiased so you can see blue in them

Fun fact: Most of Windows xp system programs works well on Windows 10. I have perfectly working version of XP task manager, all games etc.
Unfortunately windows 7 must have some bullcrap in every program that prevents it from starting on everything, but 7.
I can run win 7 taskmgr on win 7,but can't run it on 10 no matter what I do. 🤔

UPDATE: every (system) program since Windows Vista must be accompanied by a MUI file which contains localization for the program.

6:08 That was there since some of the later betas of Windows 8, so it's been there since around late 2011 - early 2012
And "Smart Screen" as well, one of my most hated features, it's pretty much useless anyway, I think it has to go already

I know if you dive very deep you can find user select dialogue from Windows 3.1
It's just mind-blowind

I agree about Control Panel. Everything was very well organized and laid out, you could find everything you needed, now theres tons of tabs and stuff and I can never find anything.

I hope somebody makes an edited Desktop Windows Management with the windows 7 basic theme I think it would look so cool.

The funniest piece is when you type ‘Control Panel’ into file explorer - it shows control panel home, but with one option as ‘Backup and restore (windows 7)’

Oh... They really didn't change anything and brought nothing new except useless 'builtin' features and design elements which are just new layers... I rly would like to see what stayed here from older os'es.
Also, it could be very interesting, if you made a video 'bout all the mess they did to control panel.

Well that registery one's looking intense. (XD)
Also, congratulations for 250K subs!

4:20 There's a windows vista program I use that bugs out the window manager when I resize it and uses windows 7 basic, which allowed me to see this long ago, the program is called GlovePIE and is a Programmable Input Emulator that somehow still works good enough.

I also thought that you had forgotten about the mouse menu until you said there was going to be a part 2 for vista and older.

So happy this video is back!, Good luck on your channel, I hope it doesn't get terminated

4:08 I also seen Windows 7 glimpses when resizing certain windows!

There's also the argument that Microsoft re-used stuff from old OSes because there's the phrase "if it isn't broken don't fix it", but honestly, it's still broken. I've already went with Ubuntu-Based linux already

Id rather have microsoft not touch the non UWP programs as the ones that have been touched are hideous and too simple.

all the microsoft OS's just had the greatest collab of all time.

Great video. This just shows that Microsoft is lazy and willing to keep all this under the hood for backward compatibility (business) and mainly change things the average user cares about (UI, apps). For your part 2 video, could you mention the Windows NT remnants in ODBC Data Sources, mainly the Windows File Manager selector? Also, there are really old app icons in Windows.

Man, Enderman just really loves using popular Geometry Dash songs, doesn't he?

To be fair Windows 11 was supposed to be a big update to Windows 10 until the marketing team at Microsoft came to the conclusion that releasing a new OS would be better

Some of the Windows 8/10 Remnants were eventually replaced starting in 22H2 (task manager, file explorer, volume, etc.)

22H2 is coming soon, which will make Windows 11 feature complete. This is Windows as a service . A product that is always in testing, improved with updates over time.

Thanks for including the track names! Most of those were really dope

Windows 11 literally has no reason to even exist, and it appears to be a rushed hatchet job to make it look like Windows isn't stagnant. It's just Windows 10 but with a new theme and higher system requirements to plan the obsolescence of computers.

windows: ah yes a normal day in the house what could possibly go wrong?
enderman: alright leme just pull out my command prompt

Top secret tip: Just switch over to the Linux side of things and you're good to go!

POV: you are a geometry dash player and you heard the nine circle and the classical VIP and you just start toremember how much pain cursed had to go thru to verify firework

The worst part of Windows 11 is that some users believe to have discovered the Holy Grail and became the smartest human on Earth because of using it

A good one is any of the active directory admin programs. Active directory users and computers hasn’t changed since windows 2000. Like you said, anything even slightly out of view gets neglected.

8:05 those dots have irked me since their initial design, as they both appear and disappear off-centre, and in a slightly different place

Fun fact, the Windows 8 charms metro flyout still exists, can be enabled with a registry tweak. You see part of this also when connecting a wired network connection and it asks you if you want to connect using that wired connection from the right side as a blue flyout with an OK button.

4:03 It's a Vista's one, not even the 7

Something to mention is "phone and modem applet" is from as far back as Windows 98 (Not sure if it were in NT 4.x, likely as it were a "networked Windows OS", certainly in Win 2000).
That applet was essential for dial-up connections and typically showed on startup when running hyperterm.

1:57 Only GD players and NK fans will understand

Quite a few of these things are being fixed in the Insider Builds. New task manager, LogonUI accessibility UI is now properly styled (albeit the network panel is still Windows 10), volume flyout is now styled. Might be worth taking another look on the next major update. Albeit a lot of the crud/legacy will likely still remain.

12:08 Remote Desktop Connection has a new app. To use, Press [Windows] + [CTRL] + [Q]

I'm happy that Microsoft has decided to listen and actually patched most inconsistencies in the past 2 years, not to mention how they added a lot of new features. Now Windows 11 feels even more unique and detatched from 10.

Microsoft should've stuck with Windows 10 as the final os and improve it overtime

So happy that the video is back! Hope they won't delete the channel.

this video perfectly showcases one of my biggest complaints with modern windows, and one of the biggest reasons why i made the switch to linux a few months ago. ever since windows 8, it feels like microsoft has just been slapping more and more things onto windows 7 and calling it a day (granted, windows 7 is possibly my favorite os of all time but i dont like the things theyve been slapping onto it). they were already doing this to a degree before win7, but i think the switch in aesthetic from aero to metro and the introduction of uwp and other tablet-friendly features made it significantly more noticeable since there was now a much bigger contrast between the legacy stuff and the new stuff. windows 11 feels like a weird mishmash of features from all the last windows versions since 7. there is no consistency. i dont think i need to point out any examples, just watch the video, but it just feels lazy and unpolished. i cannot believe that control panel still needs to exist after 10 YEARS of trying to phase it out because there are just still some things you cant do in settings, and thats just the biggest example. i find it hilarious that one of the biggest companies in the world known primarily for their operating system that is used on billions of computers cannot develop a more consistent os than a bunch of random open source developers that usually work for no pay developing programs for an os with countless different distributions and only a 2% desktop marketshare. seriously, on linux theres pretty much only gtk and qt apps, and both can be themed extensively, including to look almost identical to each other. you can barely even theme windows anymore at all. i hope microsoft completely overhauls windows one day, but it seems like theyre either too low on manpower or too lazy to be bothered

Every second version of Windows is initially a disaster that takes a long time to fix.

Thank you for justifying my liking for Windows 7 to be the best operating system ever

Update Tier list:
Windows 11 RTM - 😐 C
Windows 11 22H2 - I mean that's alright like... A-

4:38 The QR code is still windows-blue...

Maybe Microsoft is still traumatized with Longhorn... Or they are just lazy by painting rusty Windows 7 with another layers of paint

I feel like Windows 10 had the right style.
New apps would look good on it,
and apps that were older would look decent, or at least not out of place-- unless it's an app from Windows 7, Vista, or XP using compatibility mode.

With Windows 11, old apps just don't feel....
Right.

Imagine an app running in Windows 95 compatibility mode using Windows 11 & Windows 10.
In my opinion, Windows 10 would end up looking miles better.

If anything I think that Microsoft has been getting lazier since Windows 8 was released; All the Windows Versions before would either overhaul everything, or they wouldn't do it at all.
However, Windows 8 still had many unchanged apps; but in the case of that, I guess it made sense; after all, they had a design that made older apps look fine.
That made things way easier.

In Windows 11, they ended up adding corners to the windows, but due to some of the remnants and compatibility mode for Windows 7 apps & older having square corners, it looks really rough around the edges.

For goodness sakes, Microsoft added the settings app, which had fewer options than the control panel, not to mention that they still kept the control panel!
Settings may be more intuitive, but it's very much worse in what you can do; oftentimes I find myself looking through settings only to be unable to find something, having to use the control panel instead.

Come on, Microsoft!
Wake up!

0:09 nobody talking about how good this song is lol

After Windows 7, Microsoft has been just very lazy with their operating system.

Hey, will you do a remake of this video and compare? Surely Windows 11 has changed a lot since.

I'm wondering, since Windows 11 contains all the ancient windows versions, is there software that turns windows 11 into any lower version by disabling all the new stuff

To be honest, i quite like the fact that they kept the OOBE the same. The windows 7 icons and the Windows 8 theme make me feel comfortable for some reason.

awesome soundtrack pick! used to listen to this song a lot when Geometry dash was a thing

Windows has always been a jumbled mess of code and features dating back to the ms-dos days to present day. The last version that looked consistent and visually appealing was Windows 7, but even then cracks were showing with the windows 9x style icons and same UI elements from windows 9x/nt/2000/xp, with how they handled their msstyles themes and the desktop composition engine, but then they started pushing their horrible, ugly, lazily developed UWP style, disabling customizability features and any windows explorer integration without removing the old windows 9x/nt/2000/xp/vista/7 era UI but simply hiding it and disabling it in the registry. They are literally too lazy to even use their own pre existing msstyles system in favor of their bloated UWP style which they have been too lazy to complete since Windows 8 to make system wide dark more or even change a simple string in the registry from 10 to 11. Absolutely disgusting for such a large company whose software runs on 90% of computers. In my opinion Microsoft needs a clean slate. The windows project right now is way too far gone and each release is simply a fresh coat of paint on windows xp and I see mac and linux taking over windows as linux becomes more mainstream and more and more people begin to get disgusted from windows.

If no one noticed, there are a couple of remnants in Windows 11 OOBE. The accessibility screen comes from Windows 8.1 and the Volume screen comes from Windows 10.

Windows 11 is truly one of the operating systems of all time.

8:32 The recovery options was only changed ONE time, but I wouldn't even consider it a major change, and that's the removal of "Refresh PC".

Yeah, the newest update just bricked my Settings app (ms-settings:). Can’t change anything about my pc outside of options that are completely reliant on control panel :/

Windows 8.x was fine, but 10 was awful and 11 is just a cheap knockoff of macOS but with absolutely no changes to the backend and awful stability. Stuff like this is why I don't use Micro$oft products anymore.

well we say bye to the old comments.

Song: its nine circles
GD Players: OMG IT'S NINE CIRCLES!

Original name of the video:
The sta(lema)te of windows

69 moments
on the thumbnail i see 69% of volume
1:24 you typed 69

If I'm not wrong you seem to like using nine circles as background music while you do barbecues.

Everybody complains about backwards compatibility layers in Windows then they plug in their 20 year old USB device and expect it to work perfectly (and it usually does). Windows' spaghetti code has made it amazingly versatile and future proof. And I know that you know that a big reason for the backwards compatibility is for enterprise users; it's not as simple as "developers are lazy". The amount of times that Windows backcompat has saved me cannot be counted on two hands, and the times where it's annoyed me can be counted on one.

All popups like you showed at 7:10 are from Windows 8. The low battery popup is also from Win8

I'm a time traveler from the year 2023. Windows 11 has gotten more consistent, alot of the windows 10 elements have been replaced.

Are you trying to convince me to switch to a Mac instead of Windows 11? If so, you're doing a great job.

3:55 it’s actually a Windows Vista Starter/Home Basic remnant… so from 15 years ago!!

The complete dumpster fire of UI inconsistencies started with windows 8 I'd say

Linux users: signature look of superiority

Amazed at how many Win8 things blend with Win10. They're fairly compatible apparently.

I have moved away from Windows apart from older versions for nostalgia reasons and this just makes me glad I did, honestly. And I hate to be THAT guy but backwards compatibility in Linux is unmatched.

The volume and brightness rockers and task manager changed in insider previews. Except that one I agree. Its like win 10

On the lock screen, if you bring up the projection panel with Win+P, it is also in Windows 8 style.

one old Remanent you did not mention was the microsoft management console which can only be accessed now from services

8:12 Not anymore, its a loading dial similar to looking like the white numbers on a Tacometer.

At this point it is just basically microsoft taking the 'if it ain't broke dont fix it' thing too far imo

in fact, there are two different onscreen keyboard applets! the one that is accessible from the lock screen is the classic that hasn’t changed too much since its beginning, then there’s also the touch keyboard, which is more updated, it includes emoji, special symbols etc

If you start explorer.exe from the login screen in Windows 11, the Windows 10 taskbar comes up.

Basically the only reason I "upgraded" was because it looks a bit nicer in some areas, but other than that I was fully aware that this is basically only a looks upgrade, but somehow it's worse, I still can't believe I can't right click anywhere on the taskbar to open task manager, only the start button works.

windows 11 is just windows 10 but heavily repainted with messy overlays and old remnants that just sit there gathering dust
at this point windows is just horribly messy

Microsoft exist peacefully
Enderman:"and i took that personally"

Although windows would most certainly benefit from a complete/almost complete rewrite of itself, I think one of the root principle of programming is being (most likely forcefully?) applied here "if it works, don't touch it".

I'm not saying it's what's best, I'm just stating my thoughts.

Things that have been updated since this video:
-Accessibility flyout has been updated for windows 11
-Task manager has been updated and redesigned for Windows 11. There's a search bar, you access the different panels through a sidebar, and the colors for high usage now follow your accent color.
-Volume rockers were also updated
-Select an app to open this type of file has been updated
-I thought that paint has always been updated for Windows 11, but apparently, I was wrong and it was redesigned in an update.

I have a theory that the only reason Windows 11 was released in October 2021 is because of the June 2021 leak which caused Microsoft to panic, do some light polishing, and release the latest development build.

At this point I think microsoft needs to completely just rewrite Windows. I think they should somehow also keep app support from the older windows, as I have a few arcade cabinets that run software from 2012 on W11 (HyperSpin, TeknoParrot, Dolphin, Triforce) and I use a few very old apps ocassionally on my windows laptop

Windows is a skeleton. Microsoft are painting layers and layers of flesh over it.

Boiling frog technique must be working great, because people still using that piece of rusty tech without even questioning

video: The State of Windows
Microsoft: Am I A Joke To You!?

Since Win11 is Win10 underneath, perhaps there's a way to port the new CPU scheduler into Win10, to enable proper Alder Lake support?

Most things you pointed Microsoft already updated on the latest Dev builds, like de LogonUI flyouts, Volume Slider, Task Manager, Boot Animation, Taskbar Icons (reverted for now) and Program Picker (reverted for now). They are (slowly) fixing the inconsistencies

The dialog at 7:07 is actually Windows 10 styled; Windows 8 stretches the width of the dialog to the entire screen, but here it's wide only to the dialog box content

Windows 11 feels like an enigma to me. Why release it to have this horrible reputation, and if they thought these things were "fine to stay", why are they updating it later? What was their strategy? It did nothing but hurt the OS in a long term view, like the next generation of Vista. It sucks because I want to give Windows 11 a shot, but in it's current state where it's more beta than final how can I put trust in it?

Cool video, but a lot of those remnants will be updated with Win 11 22H2, so sorry to say but this will become outdated very soon...

On that crash screen... why hasn't anyone noticed that not even the colors on the antialising has changed? Literally, take a closer look, and you can see blue antialising on a black background.

The OS where you can't create a local account and every info is uploaded to microsoft servers, wonderful times.

11:27 And you can still access it by right clicking the battery icon in the taskbar. It's easily accessible just like that.

4:06 I once saw that happen. At the time I had no idea what happened. It looked just like that. I guess the graphics driver crashed.

I noticed that the accessibility one on the Lock Screen has been fixed on my build at least (running Dev channel)
Edit: Task manager is also new, volume is also new, dots are no longer there, and paint has been updated too

windows 11 has a big windows 7 leftover in C:\Windows\Media, there is a folder to every windows 7 theme, but they're empty

im kinda surprised how the control-menu box wasnt talked much nowadays despite being a remnant of windows 3.0 (and possibly below)

The UI stuff would have been fine if they just called 10 and 11 as 8.2 and 8.3. Number of people complaining would have been less. And tbh I LOVED the Aero Glass theme ever since it launched with Vista.

Hey, Paint for windows 11 updated, and now it's Photoshop

A lot of these inconsistencies have been fixed in 22H2…
But your point still stands. Windows 11 is basically a shiny box from the outside with NT remnants on the inside.

They've been working on replacing the control panel for 9 years and three windows versions and they still aren't done.

Another remnant of windows 7 is in the windows recovery center with all the options like boot from usb, open cmd, startup options. When you select command prompt, the x, maximize, and minimize buttons are windows 7 themed. When you ask cmd to open taskmgr.exe, it brings up the windows 7 task manager.

You just know that if they ever did a clean up pass on Windows, they'd take out a ton of compatability, useful settings and features.

I mean from this video all i can say is that most of the „remnants” from win7 and win8 were made perfectly with no problems and making new ones would be a waste of time if you can just redesign them to work on win11

I'm excited to see some good Windows NT 3.1 relics in Windows 11 tbh.

Topic: State of windows
My brain and eyes: COOL FOX

There might a some sort of light as in newer Dev releases of Win11, many of the Win10/Win8 remnants are being redesigned to match Win11. Tho they still refuse to change many old remnants

8:18, btwn, on Factory OS you have the W11 spinning wheel in the startup.
I have no idea why they don't implement it on the Desktop version.

As someone who has indirect knowledge of the inside,
1. No matter what I say next, the inconsistency in styling is inexcusable.
2. Some things do not change because they are either “finished” or match the style(volume and brightness corner hud).
3. Yes w11 is a stepping stone that is very much still w10.
4. There are a lot of features that are being left out for the time being for the sake of compatibility with older hardware, although that should be a mute point with the new hardware requirements. I find it funny that even still, if you put w11 esd into w10 installer, you can run w11 on a core 2 duo

it's pretty sad, windows 11 had so much potential to bring back features that microsoft stole from us, but instead they just choose to make it windows 10 with rounded corners.

5:35 Microsoft just listened to him and remade Task Manager

I think the biggest issue is that they don't want to replace code from XPs days. They need to build Windows 12 from the ground up if it wants to be good

You don't even need to crash the video driver to see the aero basic windows, they're used when you run a programm in xp or older compatibility mode.

10:15 maybe even from vista ?

it's true what people say, windows 11 is just a skin for windows 10

"If something works, don't change it just for the sake of changing it."

hey remember how they advertised a lot of stuff for w11 but it ended up not being there in the initial release of it despite being advertised? like android app support which iirc is still in beta and only works if you have your region set to one of the few countries that supports it? bet you it was because of that one leaked build that they rushed it. fucks sake, they released it with the task bar being half-broken because they were in the process of rewriting the whole damn thing so they can do what? not allow you to put it anywhere you want? put the icons in the middle of the panel? taskbarx has been able to do both with w10 panel and it was pretty much perfect. what taskbarx couldnt do was force you to go to settings to put an app into the "overflow menu" aka the fancy way of saying "it appears on the system trey instead of in the arrow!" because you cant just drag it in/out with your mouse... now i need to know why do people actually defend this OS like its perfect, or at all?

They refactored some code, added a couple of underlying features, slapped a new ui on it, and disabled some features, then just need to ctrl+f "Windows 10" to "Windows 11" and forget to check that every file was done. Ship now, bug fix later.

when you look more at the fox in the wallpaper than in the video itself...

You missed another inconsistency The Windows Setup at the 1st portion when we chose the version we want to install and chose the partition That part of the setup is the same as windows vista 16 years ago online changing the background and the logo of the operating system Everything is same

In short: Windows 11 is a combination of all Windows with the improved design

tbh i think microsoft should just create an entirely new operating system.

One of the reasons given as to why lots of the more core system parts, so task manager specifically, is that it is meant to be mission critical software, so if they change anything, it has to be 100% bug free. It still doesn't explain some of the other stuff, like other menus for things like drive properties.

The variety in styles is there to remember the old legendary versions of Windows, it's there for nostalgia, for all of us nerds

Im more surprised with the sync that ender has in his videos lol 4:05

1. In the latest build, BSOD is blue, but it's darker than Windows 10/8.1/8 BSOD.
2. Although battery warning from fluent UI, even in the latest build "This app cannot run..." is from Metro UI.
3. You can enable new loading animation from Windows 10X. But you need to use regedit, and it doesn't work in WinRE.

Windows 11 was in devlopment thats why the product name is windows 10. But Some Features They Have Not Updated From Win 7&8 That Is True The Descrippticon Is Almost 99 percent correct . And Keep Up The Excellent Job. I am a subscriber of you

I don't see the problem tho? Not all changes should be visible to the end user. It's not all about UI.

I'm happy Steam Deck exists. It'll drive Linux adoption so we can finally ditch this shitshow of an OS.

Volume slider, accessibility options in login screen and boot spinning circle are updated in insider build, but most of the remaining components are still untouched.
(Time to switch to Linux I guess)

Here's another thing. Whenever I got the windows 10 start menu back in 11, I found that my old settings to 10's start menu were still there. Names, wherever I placed things, etc. Legit all the same.

Nine circle vibes be like

I was angry when they removed MS-DOS Mode, so I can`t really say I am in agreement this is a problem. Solid code should stay as long as it is solid and something better is not made.

Windows 11 was never a new version though, that was always obvious IMHO. It is just their way to move us to prepetation for the software rental pattern of business as they have with Office.

I personally call Windows 11, Windows 10.1

Windows 11's initial release still contains older version of UWP apps, and Paint and Notepad

fun fact: windows 11 has a new taskmgr now

4:10 This isn't DWM. It's literally msstyles but MS doesn't want to update it

NOTE: The network Flyout has been redesigned on insider builds including File Explorer completely, Brandon said the legacy file explorer will be removed due to Control Panel settings will be moved into the Settings app.

UNIX: Bunch of OS components that can be replaced with another. Modular, lightweight, no-bloat.
Windows: Bunch of stuff wrapped in a form of an onion. Heavily integrated, bloaty.

While it creates problems i kinda love how small bits and pieces msde it though years. Like a scar that you got 25 years ago that are still with you.

13:04 is a reminder of how much i miss those swanky animations

NINE CIRCLES?!

MS works in the attitude: "Works, don't fix it." Windows still has a large base of users, especially IT admins. If change design on one, it will create havoc.

Funny to see, how Win 11 has relativaly high requirements, however they still got fax support, huh...
Thanks for the video!

I have styled windows 11 with EP (Explorer Patcher) and now the corners, and the buttons are windows 11-esque, otherwise it's windows 10.

Why are you surprised about control panel from windows 7 being in windows 11?
it was in windows 10 too.

I still believe that Microsoft will someday surprise us, users.
Better to wait seated. :b

I don't wonder about why the old stuff is there as much as I wonder who the hell needs any of the new stuff.

Windows 11 is the fnaf security breach of operating systems

Another remnant of Windows 10 that I have noticed while daily driving 11 on dual monitors: when you click on the date on the calendar on the main monitor, a new fluent design calendar pops up. When you do the same on a second monitor, an old Win10 UWP-style calendar pops up. I found it absolutely hilarious

Debieron terminar primero Windows 8 antes de saltarse versiones para que esto no hubiese ocurrido.

you should do voice over. great vid!

I immediately recognized valinet's Rounder Corners uDWM patcher from the thumbnail. I wouldn't click on this video otherwise!

I wish they revert all their useless UI hacks and switch back to Windows classic look and focus on features that would be actually useful. And backward compatibility is a great thing. This is why I prefer Windows. Without backward compatibility, it would not be better than GNU/Linux desktop.

Its nice to know that windows 7 is still with us

I use Arch btw. It was Windows 11 that made me switch to it. I feel like I'm only seeing the world now. I was stuck with Windows because of the monopoly they've created.

The brightness and volume bars have changed, they now look more windows 11-y and now are at the bottom center placed horizontally

They did say that windows 10 would be the last major release. Then they said "oh actually here's windows '11'" by changing a few features from windows 10

damn a geometry dash song has made to the channel

the insider previews tho, there features are godmode, like the explorer tabs, new dark mode and ui stuff and things that are really going to be a very good change for the new update

the constant layering makes sense for backwards compatibility (which is the main reason alot of people even use windows),but it's really bad for an entire OS.

The floating and rounded Windows 10 start menu actually looks really nice! A shame that Microsoft canceled the Sun Valley update for Windows 10.

enderman usually plays geometry dash

4:13 I was always wondering why the windows look like they were on win 7. Now I know what's going on .

Seen in the "this app cannot run" section, enderman is confirmed to officially play gd

It also has "System Performances Evaluation Tool" or whatever you call it

Honestly, every OS update is just that, an update. There are still windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, windows 8 & windows 10 elements in win 11. The core of modern Windows is Windows NT, which is Windows as most people know it, and has been released in 1993 for the first time.
For UI coherency though, apps built for win10 are more likely to handle system redesigns better than apps prior to that, as there was no real notion of system-wide appearance in the industry.

I also noticed that browsers do detect the Operating System as Windows 10 and it makes me feel that Windows 11 is somewhat tweaked version of Windows 10.

Fun fact: if you set an application to 16-bit colors, the window will have windows 7 basic theme

Completely off topic but that is a nice fox background

If you go into control panel and then type c: in the bar, it loads windows 10 explorer

From 2024. Windows 11 now has new volume and brightness rockers if anyone cared. And better animations for the hidden icons bar.

I knew Windows 11 had some things from old operating systems, but not this much

also I found some other interesting things about Windows 11: its "notepad" executable doesn't really do anything when ran. Proof of this is if you copy notepad to a different folder and try to run it. Another interesting thing: the internet explorer executable will open Microsoft Edge no matter where it is... unless it isn't named iexplore.exe. Also if you delete all the registry entries and reboot, you might notice that the mouse cursor has been replaced with the Windows XP cursor.

didnt knew that People still make text based videos from 2010

There's actually another remnant from Windows XP. Which is the about dialog (the dialog when you click "Properties" in "My Computer") that about dialog was reused and modified as "sysdm.cpl". Or "System Properties". The only difference is that the first page was removed. And some sections were modified.

My main problem with Windows 11 is that the hover state overrides the selected state for desktop icons, so there’s no immediate visual feedback when you select something on the desktop. It’s a minor but frequent annoyance.

In win10, I also found it has an windows 7 window layout or whatever in its files. If you full screen and unfullscreen really fast it should show up for not even a second.

Me seeing nine circles and geometry dash: What's your GD username and did you beta nine circles? Also is this why you put some recognizable GD music?

3:57 it's actually a vista remnant, from 2005!

9:15 The progress bar by default hangs until it receives the users input inside of the password dialogue of a password protected zip file or folder.

This is still the case now.

I saw the title and somehow first read it as "Sta-lema-te before realizing it was just stalemate (as in, the stalemate in chess)

Now Microsoft is doing a good job in update Windows 11 Feautures and more.

A lot of this stuff has been fixed in the latest Insider Dev builds of Windows 11 and all of those changes are apparently coming soon to release with build 22H2. New media hud, new task manager, and so many old dialogs replaced with modern UWP stuff along with a whole shit ton of under the hood changes as well

How did you make your taskbar look like windows 10, but have the OSX Style Fly out?

Fun fact: If you go into control panel, then windows tools and on the left click this pc. congrats, you have found windows 10 file explorer (with windows 11 icons)

Like one guy said in a comment section I saw earlier: every new Windows is an older version, rewrapped

never thought i’d hear nine circles again.. haven’t touched that game in years

By this point I think the abandoned 10X is better than 11.


Or just stick to Windows 10 1809, if your PC is old enough.

Windows 10 to 8 is like 7 to vista.

11 is essentially ME tbf, it's trying to pretend it's a "new" os with a new look, but its just a fresh coat of paint

Microsoft: Let's make a 100% new and improved windows version!
Also Microsoft: Copies windows 10 and rebrands it as 11

3:58 Also, when the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is used, the uDWM is exact from windows 10 because even the context menus get the border that is in win 10, not optimizing your OWN PRODUCT for your OWN PRODUCT, dissapointing.

Control Panel should be added again and redesigned matching to windows ui

Bro i can't with the nine circles playing in the background

Can't believe I'd be enjoying your content even after switching to GNU/Linux.

They're Very slowly addressing some of these, for example recent insider builds finally updated task manager, remote desktop and mspaint and the boot screen circle is no longer dots

Windows media player is another big remnant of windows 7

Fun fact: Running Windows 11 on low res (640x480) gets you the non rounded windows back

Tbh, Microsoft just accelerated the development and didn't care about the small things, and are just now, lazily updating em to the Mica design language

In my opinion Microsoft should have stuck to Win32 and just updated it to look modern. It's the best way to keep everything looking consistent.

Also, my Win11 install has an updated version of paint, but it doesn't support dark theme! Bruh!

I didn't side with Microsoft but a bit story. I'm currently using Windows 11 Insider Beta build, and part of things in your videos are currently renewed with WinUI elements. It is including, but not limited to: flyouts, open with dialog, tbh Idk what else but yeah, I guess it's worth to mention insider beta (not Dev) build in the video

Windows 11 does without a doubt is Windows 10 with overlays. It was Microsoft's choice to cancel and change version from Windows 10X to 11 because wanting to end support on devices that PC businesses want to end it since Microsoft has no control to end support or limit update by 5 year unlike ChromeOS & macOS. However, Linux is there to support your device 10-23 years old from now

In Pro for Workstation (I use Insider and don't know about non-beta), the Task Manager is updated and volume appears at centre (sort of like Apple) and is updated and tons of features are there. You might consider trying Pro Workstation Beta.

I use the insider version, task manager and the volume shortcut thingy, the starting animation and other things have been changed a few weeks ago already

I already disliked the wildly inconsistent UI of Windows 10. When Windows 11 was announced I finally switched to Linux. Linux Mint (Cinnamon) brings back the wonderful elegance of Win7 and improves it even further.

To this day they have changed a few things, such as the volume/brightness sliders, the classic task manager, the “how do you want to open this file” popup thingy, the notepad, ms paint, the spinny dot things (but only in some places), and idk what else i might edit this comment if i find more changes since this video :P

micro$hart really hit the uncanny valley with Windows 8 and hasn't recovered since

This is how I see this... it's like a videogame, just building upon a base and building upon that base... But Windows... It's not a videogame. So... 😬

I can prove that the accessibility UI is new, and only remains from old LogonUI are: Network UI and Keyboard Layout UI.
(update to latest version and see!)

Oh gawd. This is why windows today needs so much ram. It has 4 Levels of OS forms. 7, 8, 10, 11 and then again backwards compatibility. I mean i don't know who uses MS-DOS today... but jeez.

It seems MS is aware of this videos, the upcoming update works exactly some points adressed on this one and also task manager (hope its new UWP base doesn't interfere with its reliability)

1:57 now imagine endermanch is beating nine circles

I love Blue BSOD More than the new version, I wish microsoft never stopped supporting windows 7.

the old DWM with windows 7 basic is something you can also find when taking a screenshot in a fullscreen game like minecraft

They did really good! “Don’t touch it as long as it works” is a good idea I guess.

So, basically, to Windows 10, Windows 11 is kinda like Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.0 (I said 8.0 to prevent confusion, despite it being officially name Windows 8)

We be saying
Why Microsoft is trying to remove control panel
here is the answer I thought(by overthinking obv)
Control Panel is a thing which is god gifted to Microsoft, thus Microsoft doesn't have that potential to optimize it for other os versions.

I'm on the last released version of the Windows 11 developer program and 90% of the bugs from this episode are gone for a long time :)

5:53 playing his own video

windows 11 is probably the result of microsoft mixing windows 10, 8 vista and 7 in the blender

many of the critics you made of legacy appearances of things are slowly addressed in insider builds, the task manager, volume flyout, open with picker and many other have been updated with a fluent ui look so it looks like the true windows 11 release will be 22h2

They havent made deep changes because last time they changed the system entirely was with Windows Vista and they FEAR that happening again, which had no drivers for existing hardware and you couldn't force install XP ones without greatly compromising the system stability (and in the case of GPUs you were straight up doomed, they didn't work at all) I have a laptop from 2008 running Windows 11 mostly with Vista drivers and the system performs as good as all the previous Windows I used on it

I kinda knew already that windows 11 was just 10 with extra UWP, but this is just stupid how much is left over.

I think that the use of old apps is perfectly fine. They should not remove the parts they made great and useful. I personally don't like what they've done with the control panel and its replacement. Still can't find what I want when I need it sometimes.

I think Microsoft took "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" too seriously

Here's hoping microsoft to keep improving on windows 11 and provide major system redesign in the next installment of windows. I personally liked windows 11 and have tried it for several months. But I decided to go back to windows 10 because there are some features either missing or working improperly. My workspace isn't sufficient to use windows 11 for now due to those gripes and issues. I'll definitely will look back to windows 11 when it has become stable.

Windows 10 was the worst it could be, they started to fix and actually made it good. but now we just have "WINDOWS 10" as the name in regedit

Can we all agree this guy is putting GD music here without a reason?

Signs that Microsoft hasn't updated the foundation of Windows in too long

1. The main drive is the C drive, not the A drive.
The reason for this is back when floppy disks and those older storage drives were assigned the A and B drive letters and Microsoft has never fixed this (probably for program reasons).

2. Just like you said in the video, it is possible to get the MS-DOS executive running.

3. Just like you said in the video, OLD file types are still registered in Windows.

4. Windows 11 is starting to break a lot more than Windows 10, probably from the foundation letting it down.

5. Windows is slower than is used to be, and slower than Linux (yes I am linux gang).

That looks like an old build because paint got updated. And also the spining dots are startup have been replaced, but is disabled on upgraded windows 10. Although it's still there, just need to change registry

yeah win10 is the same as win11 its just looks different i mean a few things have changed but its just the appearance has changed

the taskbar is a overlay
you covered it this year, they just keep adding overlays until it's too fat. the taskbar.

Windows is the definition of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

3:54 since windows 7? you think thats bad, that may have actually been there since windows vista*, so literally *17 years have passed since that feature was added in

I hope someday they manage to normalize all those UI elements and get rid/replace all the old applications, actually is a big mess, it works, but it's messy

Fun fact did you know that the basic theme is actually used in a window in window state

12:30 For whatever reason, you have the old MS Paint, there is a W11 version

Step 1: Download Windows 10 media creation tool
Step 2: Run it
Step 3: Select Upgrade this computer now
Step 4: Wait as Windows 11 gets upgraded to Windows 10

they made a lot of changes on the insider build, though i hope they finish the entire redesign and not just move to a new windows version

Technically the basic view in Windows 7 isn't handled by DWM so it makes sense given starting in Windows 8 DWM became a requirement for rendering. Windows 7 basic was handled by the old in kernel, non-composited rendering. Why would they update the non-DWM renderer when it's not been officially supported since 7?

sorry but what program do u use for this taskbar cuz it looks amazinggg

Luckily most of things shown in the video are now in Windows 11 style and the overall system is way more consistent! But that just proves that Microsoft released a half-assed incomplete Windows 11... In the first months, it was just basically Windows 10, with a different wallpaper, different taskbar and rounded corners.

I have a PC with touch screen with Windows 11, and in login screen if I try to put my Windows Hello PIN appears the Windows 10 Numeric keypad.

The reason why Windows 11 has many things from previous versions is because of how Windows 11 got leaked while it was being developed.

SmartScreen doesn't block EXEs if they're properly signed with an Authenticode certificate, which all software should be.

Some things have changed now and look newer and redesigned in 2023 but still there are things from Windows 10 and lower and its a shame Microsoft doesnt change it

At this point Windows is just a bunch of sticks held together by duct tape

Should remake this trying to see what’s left

And now you can't unsee it

I'm sure that some people do like it, but I don't like the redesigned menu that has the sound, brightness, etc. It makes me feel like I am using a Chromebook :/

Here I am, still using XP in 2023. By choice, though, I just like how uniform the UI is.

10:26
me: clicks to eject my gigabit network connection
ethernet cable: flies through the roof
me: T H A T W A S T O T A L L Y W I C K E D

noted, will upgrade to windows 7 when given the chance

every new Windows version should be just a update, not a "major upgrade"

I might be called lazy but it would be swell if you added a text to speech bot anyways cool vid bruv

I have an interstering port of Space Pinball that refuses to use the Win 11 layout. Instead it uses the 7 layout, and is one of the reasons why I don't recommend upgrading to my friends if 10's perfect for them

Glad someone finally uploaded a video about this. Absolutely sad of Microsoft.

Also when a program is refusing to close during shutdown the prompt for "Force shutdown" is entirely from windows 10.

2:25 old windows 10 versions had the windows 8 wifi selector on logonui

Even KDE's Plasma Win11 theme looks way more Win11 than Microsoft release itself

They changed the volume and brightness bar in 22H2 so do not worry. its new. As well the open foreign file popout. Install Windows 11 22H2 and see

whenever I open vscode I see windows 7 style window decorations just for a moment

The nine circles music scared me wtf 💀

I agree that these are true on the current build of windows, but since I am on a dev build, most of these have changed.

Windows was a mess since Windows XP. Account system from NT 4.0 has only got a better UX/UI, and it haven't been changed even in 2001.

Windows 11: Windows 10, but reskinned and even more half-arsed.

It doesn't make sense for microsoft to create a whole new operating system, since windows 10 is a great operating system, but it's really just Windows 10 with a revamped look

When a Windows developer said Windows 10 will be the last version of windows, i guess he wasn't lying.

first up... windows 11 will never completely be windows 10 because everything shy of win10pro isn't fully win10 either. There's a reason I have 10pro installed on a system with protection programs blocking 11 from testing/initiating and advertizing - same reason I had those programs on win7pro to block the degradation of windows 7 as forced disturbance

The real trainwreck of win10 and win11 is that in pin-mode for login it will let an attacker know precisely how many characters are in your pin. That's actually a violation of consumer law.

correctly typed what you're trying to state is "practically unchanged from windows Vista"

I would imagine the only reason they keep Windows 7 Basic is as a fallback

11:47 Yeah, no, that Location Information dialog is using classic-theme controls, suggesting it's older than XP. Probably from Windows 9x.

I have a reason why wordpad has to be in windows 11 and 10. Education places such as High-Schools use it for those who are doing exams on a laptop. This is because it’s a cut off word with no auto correct and it can print.

Detect my modem was originally added in Windows 95, then ported to Windows 4 (NT) and now it's freaking here.

they are fixing some of those windows 8 mistakes in the insider builds.

Microsoft, hire this guy.

The Windows 8 UI elements just need a dark mode. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

8:01 did someone notice the dope transition when he clicked the setting?

there are so many things that straight from 8 that i just didn't notice since 10s ui is very similar
they can't hide this with 11 anymore

My graphic drivers always crashes because of 0gb 💀💀💀💀💀and I got 95's UI, 7 and worst of all, NOTHING

The video got copyright claimed but later got restored but it removed comments

Some of the visual inconsistencies have been fixed in current beta builds

Windows 10 is windows 7: the definitive edition
And now windows 11 is windows 10: the definitve edition

even the permission tab is still the same from 8+ years

Honestly I get that they don't wanna have to redo everything every time but like at least theme everything in the new style and remove the old ones?!?

Now I have trust issues with Microsoft after watching this, This is embarrassing that fact that they couldn’t even hide the date, and at least change some Menus or something, and have the audacity to deny the fact that Windows 11 is just an updated Windows 10.

4:01 if you open cmd and press alt+enter you also get the windows 7 style frame (idk how i should call it, cross square and minus in top right corner)

When Microsoft opens the codebase of Windoze, and we see that the kernel is a Linux kernel, shit will get real. Remember when Linux 4 was the latest major release of Linux. Now it is Linux 5

22H2? New Task Manager. New Volume +/- for Function key. R.I.P. Spinning Dots in Windows 8.What about run Settings in OOBE (This works on Windows 11)

But in Windows 11 Build 26047 (23H2) : R.I.P. Old Windows 8 Setup and WordPad.

Microsoft makes it look like Windows 11 is the goat new operating system, with new features to die for until you notice it's Windows 10 in disguise.

Honestly, I do use Windows 11, and tbh it is alright, not excellent. It just feels like an update rather than an evolution. It isn't bad, just feels like not really a revolution. (Thought I'll be honest I just prefer Ubuntu or other Linux distros in general)

6:01 Microsoft had actually updated it the build is in the beta channel

You know the three buttons at the top of every window? One day I saw them but with windows 95 style…

i had always been curious about why the window buttons looked really old when i maximise or minimise my window too fast. the first computer i got actually came with windows 10, and i’m still using it today, with a couple upgrades of course, but until microsoft gets grumpy, i’ll stick with my pc running windows 10 with 8 gigabytes of ram and a good graphics card that SOMEHOW can’t run windows11. it’s literally the most powerful computer in my household! especially cos i’ll just end up reverting all the changes of win11 to look like windows10. no point in upgrading.

I think windows 11 just needs a little more time to improve, sort of like windows 8.

Bruh, the default wallpaper is still called Harmony in Windows 10

This isn't an educational video at this point, it's a SLANDER

4:40 oh wow... they really did just change the color. they didn't even try to make it look professional, you can still see pixels from the old blue background around the text and QR code ;O; did they do this in ms paint?

What were you expecting? That it was made from scratch?
Who has time for that? Compatibility with absolutely any driver and software would also be an issue, so it would actually be a problem if this was entirely new, you wouldn't even be able to upgrade without a clean install.

It's amazing how they keep getting away with this

12:32 mspaint did get updated though, not sure about wordpad because i never use it

The original title was The Sta(lema)te of Windows

Bro, the win11 beta literally has the basic apps updated to a new look.

Many of these issues are being fixed in Insider Builds, btw.

And MS Paint was updated in Windows 11 version 22H1, but WordPad still isn't

isnt anyone going to talk of the fact that this video used to be called "The Sta(lema)te of Windows"?

the only change is the whole set browser as default shenanigans

The Windows 8 remnants are acceptable in Windows 10, which is practically just a desktop-optimized version of Windows 8. In Windows 11 though it's just unacceptable.

4:15 I bet the whole thing is win 7 but tons of things changed and added that would make more sense because win 11 is based of Windows NT the kernel/shell Microsoft has been using for decades

Where did you got the wallpaper? (the fox one)
Nevermind I found it

and the funny part is they are advertising windows 11 as a fully done os

I cant belive microsoft with 100k employee can't build a new windows rather then making the same windows with updated theme and small tweaks with lot of bugs.

this is proof that Microsoft should rename windows 11 to "windows 7 but with new ui cuz we were bored"

Things like camera, calculator and other Windows11 apps have been updated after video release

like noone cares that he uses nine circles that is from geometry dash 💀

11 is just as intended. Microsoft knows every other iteration (ME, Vista, 8) tends to end up panned - it's like the Windows curse. So they were clever; they changed just enough for it to look like a new OS on a rapid development cycle - don't want to invest too much after all. They then threw in security features that only work on the newest hardware. This means 11 takes the heat for security features that can subsequently be carried over to 12 without too much fallout. Meanwhile the OS isn't so radical that it causes controversy and tanks stock.

Dude, if I wanted to read an article I would do so at other websites rather than on youtube with much more pleasant experience.

ok holy shit
the BSOD looks like they literally just took the existing BSOD image and just changed all instances of the blue color to black with the bucket filling tool in paint, except for the qr-code for some reas

edit: DWM is from Vista, not from 7.

update this vid for the 2022 windows 11 update pls

Windows hasn't been the same since the days of 98, XP, and 7.

My browser made in C++ uses Internet Explorer 11 engine, and the IE 11 releases in 2013 (when it was Windows 8 and the IE 11 was the last version), so this is why i can't even watch videos on youtube

I guess they meant it when they said that they're going to update Windows 10 instead of releasing a new OS.

hey, i found out that if you edit a folder's icon theres some icons that are from Windows 9x, Windows XP, Vista and 7.

There's a few more which date back to its Windows NT days in shell32.dll.

4:54 - Released in 2009, apparently. Coincidentally, that's the year Windows 7 was released...

Windows 11 is pretty much Windows 10 with some makeup on

Microsofy created Windows 11 merely as an excuse for people to switch over to newer hardware that has "additional security" meaning the new TPM chip - which isn't going to be used for.. security.

5:14 Look down, it says released 2009 so this is not even Windows 10, it's Windows 7
BTW there are things that are changed in insider preview. Like volume flyout. There are changes to task manager too. There are no spinning dots now. It seems like they have removed Mobility Center. There is no Wordpad now. Paint got some rework (but no dark mode 🫤). Still they have more work to do.

As time passes by, I am hating windows more and more. Switching to Mac for good

every windows is the same operating system since Windows NT release in 1993, its just the UI changed

In build 22000.346, the BSOD color is changed to dark blue.

Microsoft was too lazy to change the BSOD QR code to black.

Microsoft after saw this video:

+ WE FIXED EVERYTHING

Actually MS Paint did get a slight update in one of the more recent updates

Instead of making control panel and settings

Why not fully make control panel as settings and just modernize it a bit

The thing about the windows 8 task manager is now sort of incorrect/outdated because the task manager got an update

They can get away with all this because almost no one installs an os on their own these days, most people buy hardware with a pre-installed os which in case of desktops and laptops is almost always windows (unless the manufacturer is Apple or a small Linux hardware company) and many people use whatever is pre-installed with minimal changes. So microsoft can crap out any unfinished but sort of functioning version of windows and still have it adopted quickly as they, since windows 10, give free os upgrades. In the end most people will continue using it as long as the OEMs and their corporate customers are on board. In that environment they have very little pressure to release a finished product instead of gradually making something resembling a finished product after years of updates like a AAA game, and then abandon it for the next unfinished product.

microsoft trying to explain that the "remenants" of windows 7 and 8 were actually remnants of windows 10 and 11 in windows 8 and 7

Linux is catching up, and the desktop experience is better than windows nowadays. The only reason why Microsoft attempted this pathetic "windows 11" is because they didn't want to lose to Linux. Especially in the UI side of things...

04:41 you can even see that text anti-aliasing is for light blue background

the base of current windows is not 40 years old. all versions of windows since xp are based on the windows nt line which was a completely new operating system written from scratch in the early 90s. the last ms-dos version of windows was windows me.

Me who casually uses Linux most of the time: Well that's interesting! Though I do use Windows 10

Great video but the music breaks eardrums my mate...

Well atleast they fixed MOST UI relics. But I prefer win 10 and regret moving to 11, but I don't feel like reverting back if it's just the same thing with UI changes. Also my computer is supposed to be "incompatible" with Win 11, but a few registry edits fixed that. (I also pirated it, so it had to be a clean install)

GD players having Vietnamese flashbacks on 0:05

I need the fox background, where did you get it from?

let's just forget about the spying lol.

just for info Microsoft added a new Task Manager style since some Insider Build but WOW did they reuse many things since Windows 1-10

That's why I switched to MacOS. It's perfectly consistent and clean.

4:41 what really kills me is that the QR code is still blue

So it is mostly about stuff 99% won‘t ever notice or care about. It just works fine to me. I mean somewhere you could even find remnants from Windows 3.11 I think. No big deal. I don‘t have to buy the software anyway, it gets shipped with my computer or I get to do a free upgrade

about that windows 7 copy dialog: ExplorerPatcher can restore it back to all files (why aren't you using it, it can do real W10 start menu as well), or you can do a shell32 mod to bring it back

Me when Microsoft EOLs an operating system while the "new" one isn't very usable and still looks like the old one half the time

I know the best solution would be to remove the old obsolete remnants, but I think it would absolutely hilarious if someone made a program that adds more remnants.🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆 Edit: that would be really epic. If anyone actually does, please let me know.

I have to say, Window 11 23H2 is much much better than the original 21H2 RTM release of windows 11

@Enderman are you a geometry dash player? You seem to use a lot of songs, like sakupen hell yes rmx and… nine circles

Next up "The State of Enderman"

some things have changed, like the volume meter and accessibly setting when logging in, but even in the oobe, the volume icon, Windows 10, when sliding the volume meter with a actual wheel? oooh, windows 11.

I bet my computer that windows 12 will be lazily neglected too

And the spinning dots! They changed it in 22h2! The same with recovery options but only icons

It's a good thing imo bc most probably they would mess up if they redid these apps

3:54 i wish theyd just go back to windows 7 lol. and even though 11 has its flaws it's still better than some of the older ones. some of these flaws have also been fixed in later insider builds of windows 11.

Windows 7 is the real Windows. It's just what's best of Windows in one, Windows 10/11 is just a downgrade

100 years later, Windows will have become a total mess of styles with a very rich story behind it

Windows 11 is still recognized by web servers as NT 10.1. Windows "11" is Windows 10.1.

It's O.K. to have old components and UI elements. It's not O.K. to keep their design without changes and make them look alien in surrounding of other UI elements. Why KDE plasma can make its design good, but Windows can't?

When UAC window is open or you are on Ctrl+Alt+Del menu, Win+P opens a windows 8 dialog.

Wow and people call Linux inconsistent in UI/UX Microsoft is a bloody mess. At least in KDE our settings menu is clean and sleak and we have all those utilities baked in and constantly updated. Plus, ours are more powerful. 😅

i wish the community would make a modded version of windows 7 that would be so much safer for using today.

though microsoft's legal team might bring it down.

Nine circles jumpscare

There's another Remnant of Windows 10 left. If u use Explorer Patcher and Restore System Info page the page Shows Windows 10 Logo

If windows developer and fix every UI shown in this video. Then it’s the best OS

See this explains how sometimes I don’t wanna deal with Windows’ bull crap and would much rather pay 60 bucks for crossover that had other programs using wine that are free

Let's all agree that, that 2nd song is fire.

i believe after the failure that was windows 8, which it was revolutionary by the time, they learn their lesson and probably won't ever go for a revolutionary redesign, windows 11 doesn't suck, but it doesn't do much better than windows 10 either

you do know the recovery menu is not windows 11 at all but a version of windows based on windows pe also this reovery menu is called windows RE based on windows PE

I think that the new Paint is absolute utter garbage. The design just burns my eyes. I would stick with the Windows 7 paint forever.

Unlike Windows 10 Windows 11 broke my HP Pavillion backlight, meaning if i click the backlight button nothing happens and the backlight remains off. I know the backlight still works because on rare occasions when the OS crashes or messes up it will light up for a brief moment. The button works fine due to the fact that i use it as FN + F5 to reload pages. And the best part is that i can't go back to Windows 10 without completely reformating the SSD, wouldn't be so bad if this laptop wasn't the laptop i use in college, but it is so fuck me right?

Some windows in ODBC settings even still kept the style of Windows 3.x .

Not the volume being 69 on the thumbnail

Ender a gd player by any chance?

If you make a folder called "System.{BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE}" it will very clearly show "Windows 10" as the current OS

Also, if you go to start and run "ODBC Data Sources (32-bit)", and to to Add... > Driver do Microsoft Access (*.mdb) > Select... it will open the file selection dialogue from Windows 3.1!

i hate the recovery options since windows 8 feels like a maze

upgrading windows 11 from windows 10 is like upgrading from 95 to 98! same look same function only a new name....

there is a correction on the pop up keyboard this keyboard actually came from windows 8.1 and not windows 10

GEOMETRY DASH REFERENCE

Update: Camera and Calculator have been updated in the latest Windows 11 update.

most of windows 8 remnants have been redesign in dev channel for windows 11 but idk if it's just a skin on top of the old one

image in the future,the camera in windows 20 is still windows 10 💀

This is part of the reason why you shouldn't upgrade to Windows 11 for now.

8:55 geometry dash flashbacks

What's amazing is that even Linux has a more consistent UI these days. Just another reason for me to switch

The way I see it, Microsoft is looking at some of the tools that have worked for so long and gone with the approach of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" without knowing it would break upon upgrade (at least cosmetically). I think they really are trying to be as lazy as they can with it, and it shows.

Come on, Microsoft, do yourself a favor and man up to the task at hand. Give something better, not just new.

something about hearing a nightkilla song in a windows 11 video is silly to me

I dont understand how such a big product like windows can be so fragmented

SOUND SETTINGS
The windows (xp?) Dialog is the only one that works in any capacity

Many of the apps have been updated in newer DEV previews

4:39 BlackSOD? I'm still getting BlueSOD on Windows 11

And when I switched to Dev build I got GreenSOD, maybe it's something u get with dev builds anyway
But I never heard of BlackSOD before, and it looks so ugly ew

Ah yes, average bloatweared version of windows, Windows 11

i think microsoft should build new version from windows from clean. like start from first lines of code. bc windows has huge amount of old tools and things etc which are just not used today.

Didn't they already say that windows 10 would be their last windows? So this thing is just a cash grab or "Windows 10 Graphic improvement DLC"

Video idea: How to turn on the Windows 7 Basic style on Windows 10?

Last Windows version with a genuinely good, consistent UI was Vista. Prove me wrong.

Wow, they want people to pay for this instead of 10 lol Windows 10 does use stuff from the previous version but at least they made it look modern and fit it all to the windows 10 theme. Windows 11 looks like some cheap knock off when you go into settings and everything starts looking weird

I've become so numb using the pc for 9 hours and i become so much more aware because im playing horror games and im been watching furry videos so im becoming this.

Win 10+ Win 8 + Win 7+ Win Vista + Win XP = Win 11..
Like why do they just...
Microsoft: Oh! I have this dial-up connection from 15 years ago hm.... Why not put that in new version of Windows huh?
They're like this: I coded this like 10-20 years ago so... Imma put it to make it richer yeah?

3:56 What do you mean by DWM being a "remnant"? It gets updated all the time.

Mac is a 100% redesign
Windows is just the operating system with backwards compatibility

It's kind of usable now (28/07/2022) it's better now, its still worse than windows 10 but its more acceptable now

Btw, youre sayin that win7 is great, but people are on win10 just because you cant install some drivers on win7. Maybe there will be a video of win 7 upgrades?

Sincerely, I prefer Windows 8 (but I can't use it because it's no longer supported), and any remnants from it don't really bother me.

Unfortunately I have no choice but to use Windows 11 on my M1 based Mac, because Windows 10 for ARM does not have x64 support.

Windows 11 is basically the worst parts of windows releases put together with a cool skin

IT'S FUCKING NINE CIRCLES AGHDFHFHZFHFN

4:10 DWM is not a Windows 7 remanant, because the Windows 7 window is the default when DWM is stopped

I switched to Linux a few days ago, Windows 11 took up half of a 500 gb ssd. Computer was slowing down and stuff.

Nine circles music lmao

Take notes Microsoft,
And plz work on everything cause the new Oprating systems we get is basicly the last one.
For example Windows 11 = Windows 10 What The Hell!!

Watching this in late 2023, lots of stuff has been fixed.

the only way i could get Windows 10 to reliably setup and connect to my Bluetooth headphones was to go into the control panel devices menu, add a device, and watch it seamlessly connect, install drivers and dependencies, give me feedback on its progress and report when it was done.

it failed every single time if i used the goddamn settings menu.

Did u miss windows media player? Cuz it's fully aero based & makes no sense on windows 11

i remember, at least in the dev build of windows 11, they fixed tht stupid choose an app to open this file with or whatever thing, but in the next update, they literally just reverted it, even tho, it actually looked pretty good(also, they made the volume slider windows 11 themes now, idk about the brightness tho, since i don't have a laptop/a device, where i can change the brightness on....)

Me with PC what can handle only windows 7: Very interesting

alternate title: exposing Microsoft for 13 minutes straight

Some of the stuff you have shown has already been fixed in newer versions of Windows 11.

The windows smartscreen is so much better than MacOS where to start any web application (the first time) you have to open system settings and click a button there

Damn we have a lot of things from old versions of windows that didn't get updated or moved into the new menu and deleting the old one
If any Microsoft employee sees this video and this comment then share this to your co-workers and fix everything :)

5:02 along with saying its win 10 it has win 7s release date

My guy used nine circles as background music

In Sysinternals Suite, running Desktops.exe and adding a new desktop causes explorer to bug out and actually show the Windows 10/8 components.

Happy Victory Day, Enderman!

4:04 perfect timing

ok this is a little of topic but how do you do that start menu at the start? looks very modernized

Windows 11 is very rushed to its release

Yeah new updates are just "heeey new update here's some new eye candy" and then proceed to install spyware on your pc

10:42 And the Control Panel doesn't even support Dark Mode, what a shame

10:20
Eject Extreme

i don't know how exactly you were able to get the windows 7 paint UI from windows 11 as they've given it an overhaul (though still is mostly similar to 7 paint, just with the windows 11 style) for a long while now, unless this video is on like, the very first public release of windows 11, or the leaked version

Every Windows since Vista has just been a reskin of the previous OS, it's just a horrible mess...

8:10 This is the first time I saw the Windows 11 loading screen and to me it looks like some kind of video parodying Windows. The logo seems stretched and the screen itself does not match the style of Windows 11.

This is funny considering the GNOME project on Linux is constantly evolving with major changes for the desktop every release 6 months (yes, not 5 years!), it's much more stable than Windows and funnily, Microsoft actually funds GNOME's development, can't they ask for a tad bit of help from their developers?

Does Linux or MacOS completely rewrite their OS base in each release? Hell no. So I don't get the arguments here. Most people won't notice them and it is not a bad thing. They are just saving time and using that time for other things. Also I have no idea what your are talking about with that fix drive prompt, that doesn't come up unless you yank the drive mid-transfer.

Wow, the Insert Object dialog at 12:28 which has "Create new > PaintBrush Picture"
...PAINTBRUSH?? Clearly this text has not been updated in roughly 30 years. 😂

The most gauling part is that they forced this clunky, incomplete hack onto a lot of people's PCs.

By the way about the Win 8 features. I figure the windows 8 screen time/family controls would be the same? I'm not sure but they're most likely unchanged

windows 10/11 is just windows 8 used with a theme since windows 8 also has windows 7 features

1:57 GD reference 💀

Do you play geometry dash? Come on, there's no way it's just a coincidence that you use a lot of songs that are in GD!

The music's just too loud and annoying, already on 2 percent on windows volume and still loud, but good video

Honestly shocking that the point made here isn't common knowledge. Some of the things you used to prove it, I did not know about, but I knew the whole damn time it was just a painted Win 10 (and I knew in turn that Win 10 was painted Win 8 and that Win 8 was painted Win 7)

Wait, can't you make a proxy server that redirects windows 10 update requests to windows 11 ones?
Would windows 10 get support until 2032?

What's worse than the ProductName in the registry being Win10?


THE RELEASE ID.
It's 2009.

Do an updated version please!

The second I clicked on the video I heard nine circles music and then quickly noticed the game on thr desktop lol

Based off the image on the desktop, i'd guess the specs on that are about 5,120x2,160.

if you want or using windows 11, i recommended join windows Insider program on beta

Windows 11 is still windows 10, but Microsoft just want to make it worse and worse, if they dont pay any attention about user's judgement, then later versions will be the worst

Dont forget about the windows nt 3.1 open file dialog, in the odbc data sources. :)

ong nine circles gd reference! 1!1!1!1!1

I would personally do a reset on the Windows line and start from Windows 7 and built off from there. I’m not impressed with Windows 11.

Why not just add a question to the OOBE that asks if you want to use the new settings or the control panel? that would be pretty nice but obviously we cant have nice things from microsoft

I don’t see any problem with this, why would you guys need all new for the feature that you never use ?

Please do a video tutorial of how to enable rounded corners on Windows 10, pleaseee! :D

Wait this video wasn’t delisted or what happened here? Why are there now 12 comments

Microsoft finaly updated some errors but not all. They need to repait autoplay etc. but windows 10 apps are only the ms store apps that you can install like Auto Dark mode. Now is update 23h3 so i think it will be good. (ik my english bad)

when you sign into Google on Windows 10, they send you an email which quite literally says NT 10.0, Don't know about 11,but probably NT 11.0

Hearing first music in video I ahd "Nine Circles" ptsd (The Hard demon from GD)

Microsoft makes UWP apps for Windows 11. You might use leaked version to 22449.
Update to the latest version and see!

And, the control panel is sooo broken that, when i open the System information in the control panel, it opens the System Info in the Immersive Control Panel

Windows сейчас - это сборная солянка всех Windows, начиная с XP. Технические костыли, дизайнерский кошмар и тонна багов, которые не спешат исправлять, потому что исправляя одно, неизбежно будет ломаться другое. Я бы на месте Microsoft переписал бы систему начисто, не трогая лишь ядро. Как мне видиться, это намного проще чем выкавыривать по тихоньку старые куски из системы.

This is exactly what happens when a non-tech group of Shareholders make decisions about tech... Win10 is it for me, not gonna get forced to 11 I'll rather switch to linux thanks

I switched to mac right when windows 11 released, I installed it on my computer and it made my computer somehow about 20x slower.

I wouldn't be surprised if one day my windows 11 system crashes and boots back to MS DOS EXECUTIVE as a fallback lol

WordPad is needed to show actual words in windows, i'm pretty sure

Microsoft actually updated task manager on windows 11 i think

Wait,the download thing was the same in Win7,right?

idk sounds like a lot of nitpicking. They haven't had the need to overhaul a lot of these unless they're genuinely broken. To call something shameful or embarrassing is exaggerated when the average person just doesn't care. Like myself, as much as they're reusing windows 1-10 it adds to familiarity/consistency in some ways. Asking for a shiny new windows OS that's essentially going to be the "Best of Windows", Basically what windows 11 is trying to be as combining their best traits windows and adding on top of it.

Whats new about windows 11: Their strick hardware requirements

well ms paint is broken since windows 7 because pointers orgins were messed up and you never knew which part of the pointer actually do the job since they were hardcoded for windows xp style icons but windows 7 and up changed them visually, plus at least in my localised version of windows ms paint proporties windows buttons for "default", and "cancel" overlap

i still didn't activate tpm 2.0 on my pc so i didn't have the chance to check if in windows 11 this still happen . does it?

is nobody talking about the fact that his gpu is at 77c while not even doing anything resource intensive? (even 77c while gaming and editing is dangerously high

Would it be possible to trick the Windows update servers to believe a Windows 10 installation is a Windows 11 installation? We could to the same thing as XP's "life" being extended because of POSReady 2009

8 bit color mode reveals win95 borders, and if you do a compatibility winxp or lower it does the win 7/vista basic. how nice of ms

Windows 11 22H2 and up continue to improve all that in fact, like for example, the Windows 8 utilman is no longer in 22H2 and the Open With dialog updated.

Either its PowerToys or an insider, but most things are different/better for me.

I don't see the problem. You're getting elements from all versions of Windows for the price of one. What's not to love? It's perfect!

... right?

i want windows 7 back now. its dead long time ago but it was a great OS

Old title: the sta(lema)te of windows

to be honest, windows need to get a new base, like you know they were 9x based, now nt based, there should be a new kernel

LogonUI getting 3 different design for every buttons 💀

Microsoft's complacency is worrying. I wonder what they're doing with security on Windows if they're not shy being this lazy about the user interface.

what do you guys fricking want? the os to be rewritten from scrap each time a new one comes out? that never happened??

seeing nightkilla or most newgrounds artists anywhere outside of geometry dash is weird as hell to me lol

Ok cool video but you can't just throw Geometry Dash music at us and not expect me to say something about it. That shortcut has to be there for a reason 🤔

Maybe Microsoft should work on a new built-from the ground up operating system. It will be hard work, but will ultimately be worth itzl

You didn't even update calculator

Tbh this video is at least a little bit disingenuous, as 1) they've been fixing these issues in the Insider Preview builds over the past couple months and 2) it's quite hard to believe that with your level of technical knowledge, you don't know that these preview builds exist.

A couple small examples: Win8-styled volume flyout is now replaced with a modern flyout; Task Manager has been updated to better align with Win11 design, and the "Open with..." window is fixed as well. Boot sequence has been updated as well.

Inbox apps are being updated as well - Media Player has been rewritten from the ground up (and has been pushed to release version of W11 in February update), and MS recently started testing a new Outlook app that would replace Windows 10/11's Mail and Calendar apps in the future.

Microsoft just can't be bothered at this point. It just screams laziness...

Wait where did all the comments go?! (Edit, see speedrunner50’s comment)

Watching this on my MacMini is satisfying.

Win11 is just a reskin with some lock out features for people with old computers.

"meh, good enough" - said microsoft for no reason at all

ha, no wonder why they're bundled as the same price in the windows store!







(my god, why did i actually pay for windows 11 when Linux is an option)

The volume and brightness rockers have been updated in Windows 11's Insider Builds! I'd love for you to break that open!

I still use Windows 7 and will use it forever proudly!

why would you change something that still works?

it is true that windows 11 is just an update to windows 10
but windows 10 was just an update to 8.1
8.1 is an update to 8 and 8 is an update to 7, 7 was an update to vista

this is not something they're hiding but, you will find in the latest insider build at least for windows 11 that the windows 8 style volume slider is now updated.

the hard thing you need to realize is that the calculator got the windows 11 treatment long before any of the windows 11 stuff happened. so did microsoft edge.

microsoft didn't want to interupt everyones experience with experimental changes to override the whole os's visuals, so they just renamed everything in the same way they have for all their other oses.
but talk about remanents of the old oses and 10 is alot worse than 11 since it has remantents going all the way back to xp's design.

4:54 interestingly, the "ReleaseId" key says 2009, when Windows 7 released

The brightness slider has been updated in 22H2

Hi, i know that you're pretty good at using Windows 10. Can you help me? My Windows apps do not update and when i try do It they immedialty come back to normal

How did you make windows 11 taskbar look like half windows 10 half windows 11

Im most used with the win7 basic styled graphics because my laptop has graphic crashes or explorer.exe ceases to exist for a few minutes so im used with the control panel tricks and seen as old as Vista on some occasions so great job for Microsoft to keep a corpse of a base till this day.
Edit: Im Romanian and not used to writing in English so expect any mistakes and to give some context, I have a 2020 low-end laptop with a 7th generation Intel I3 with 12 GB ran, a integrated Nvidia m110 which has 6 GB vram and 512 GB ssd storage and runs win 10.

Being real here when i saw windows 11 i thought it looked similar to windows 10

Secret: there is a windows 10 internet ui on log in

I agree that Windows 11 is terrible, but Does every single UI element have to remade every release?

8:13 you can get another type of booting animation by changing a registry key i think

And, Microsoft Jigsaw, An app from the store made by Microsoft, Has Windows 8 remnants.

Most of the things are changed on the latest Windows 11 Version. I've been using Windows 11 since the leak, always updated had to enable TPM 2 whatever anyways the volume flyout changed to the new one.

So basically by installing Windows 11 I install all of them?

Nine Circles by NK is such a vibe though

Ok so what? I like Windows 11 more and I see no reason to downgrade to Windows 10. no hate.

Can we all switch to manjaro now?

12:08 There is a Microsoft Store version of Remote Desktop but I dont know the main differences.

The release date is 2009

I can't believe that this is outside insider or even beta

The volume slider is new in the dev version of windows 11 tho i dont think they will be added until in the normal version until 2023

You've only scratched what you can see, the code is a much bigger mess.

Technically it isn’t because they doesn’t share the same kernels

im fine with the legacy / 7- ui, but i hated windows 11 at first since its 3 generations of modern ui, when i updated, even basic things like the unintall balloon in modern settings was still windows 10 etc. But i didnt even know until this vid there were still 8/8.1 elements, its so dumb. you would think if microsoft wanted a polished, user friendly ecosystem, it wouldn't have inconsistencies from 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.
Maybe you should do a MacOS version to show off its inconsistencies, even though there probably isnt any.

I like the windows 7 style, but not mixed in with 2 other operating systems and windows 8 is bad (in my opinion). Edit: My grandparents are thinking about upgrading their PC since they have windows 7, so i'll tell them to use windows 10, there pretty good with tech for there age, my grandpa has a smartphone lol. Sadly, my dad upgraded our pc to windows 11. I'll show him this video.

hopefully Windows 12 changes everything wrong about Windows 11

i refuse to use anything that has ui past windows 7 because thats the last time it was designed for desktop computers.
windows 10 start menu sucks and search sucks even more. openshell is a godsend

So, any linux distro with KDE Plasma 5 is just Windows 11 but better in every way

honestly i doubt i would switch to windows 11 even if they did finally clean up the system and make every UI consistent, but they didnt even do that. nobody should get windows 11 and laptop users should get help

I honestly don't know what to say about that registry value. What the actual fuck.

Some of these things are good. Like if they change taskmgr to a new design it will maybe lag and make it need other stuff open to make it work

Windows 11 is pretty much Windows 10 with some makeup on

how did you get that floating windows 10 start menu with rounded corners on 0:24 ?

I think its better to be called windows 10.1 rather than 11, like the previous windows 8.1 release.

And talking about the design, that remnant old windows metro design style that always make me dissapointed. Windows 8 and 10 are not that different in terms of metro design imo, but the 11 are.

also on logonui if you run the explorer with the sethc.exe replacement, it'll appear windows 10 ui

Well,Windows 11 may be not a perfect OSeS.But,how about the future?About the Windows 12,13?Microsoft may be change all theme and forgot the Windows 7,8.x,10 theme
(my contry not use English so some word may be wrong)

"An official bootleg of windows"

There's one software which is still the same from Vista: Windows Fax and Scan.

4:14 one time when I was (regrettably) using windows 11 to play spore without the drm getting in the way it crashed and I saw the windows xp window borders for a split second instead of the 11 or even the 7 borders

They just want u to fell nostalgia when seeing these.

nine circles song goes hard 0:08-3:30

Geometry dash players hearing this song 🍷

Actually I have upgraded to Windows 11 and besides a few bugs it’s the best OS I‘ve ever seen in my life.

Why did the made the bsod black? That ruins the whole point of the name blue screen and nobody mistook bsod as the black screen of death.

kinda late here but DWM has pretty much been the same since windows vista

Tbf there's the redesigned UWP RDP app in the MS store, just the built in client is neglected...granted it's still far superior to the UWP version IMO

nine circles goes too hard 🥶🥶🥶

i saw theses windows 7 windows on windows 10 too. glad to know what it is now

i would've understood them reusing stuff since it's far from uncommon when it comes to tech development but come on, this is just selling the same thing with a bucket of paint splashed on it

They had to rush it due to the 4chan leak.

Either way it's more stable than w10 for me

4:14 this happened to me many times before. i was confused many times lol

I can already tell that during its 22H2 W11 after installing Intel GPU drivers for Braswell and said Windows 10.19048 along the lines in the System Info lol

Edit : I think it's 22000 not sure

Once Windows 10 LTSC is no longer supported, I'll be switching to Linux and that'll be it. Windows 11 is ugly.

Paint and Notepad have been updated, you had not updated them yet i think

Whys this dudes background music are Geometry Dash related.

1:57-3:30 Nine Circles

Actually I saw that the rockers and the dots in loading screen changed in preview versions but I don't know if they even comes to stable releass

windows 11 broke my pc, cant even update in ohio

Hey Andrew! may i ask about something? its about getting windows 7 iso, is there any way to get it?

Once i had blue screen of death in windows 11 i dont even know how i done it

they didn't build windows 11
they make a Frankenstein and dressed it to seems cooler

A few words...
NK - Nine Circles

nine circles bruh

dont know if im weird but i actually learn to love that mess of windows😂
I mean why care for UI Mess if its still work well😂

Try using Windows 11 now

Can you change the CurrentVersion key to Windows 11 Pro without it breaking?

Nine circles reminds me of Geometry Dash as soon as I hear it…

A Geometry dash song in Enderman’s video!

The branding in classic system properties on windows 11 is windows 10

Microsoft should learn something from this video

Dideveryone dont realize that the first bg music is nine circles from gd?

if it werent for games we'd drop windows the next day

4:19 im pretty sure windows 10 does this aswell, ive seen it happen when launching unturned it did a funny and it was all windows 7 for sum reason

Most of the video was windows 10?!

this video aged fast

Windows 11 would be great if it don't come with system requirements for installing

All this "problems" are fix in the Windows beta stage i think

If you install an INF, you get XP copy dialog

NK - Nine Circles as a song
Geometry Dash Reference omg























and uh what to say

ong also firework gd reference 2! 1!1!!1!1

The icons in the middle, the rounded corners and the control center thing.
Yep, this is a MacOS rip off made by Microsoft. Sad.

Does anyone know a way to bring and inject that uDWM.dll into Windows 10 to have rounded corners without Windows 11? I will be really grateful!

I had this complaint since I first got Windows 10 -Let us change the Text Color on the Lock Screen or do what Linux Mint Cinnamon does and add a contrasting Overlay (Sure not everyone is using a Solid white background but for example that Fox wallpaper would be hard to read the text on the W10 Lock Screen)

9:03 - Happens to me when moving files from my C or E Drives (Main and Secodary Harddrives) to my D Drive (USB Flash Drive) and it's quite annoying

If you care about visual consistency in any sense just move to Linux, Microsoft couldn't care less because they already have their money even if people don't willingly give them it because prebuilt pcs still come with a windows license most of the time.

Hey, windows insider daily driver reporting they did change the volume slider and boot dots, but still have the NT version showing windows 10 pro in the registry.

Yeah, but if something's good enough it dosent need fixing

well, microsoft decided to make a another os, with the background and taskbar changhed, and rename it is ,,the best os ever" lol :)))

nine circles

I really wish it was built-in/easy to revert the dwm to the vista/7 style window frames

win11 = Windows 1legacy bundle confirmed

good video but the music is annoying

GPEDIT will give you an error saying it's Windows 10

I just need two things from Microsoft Windows 7 and windows 10

Incoming geometry dash comments for the song at 0:10

Hahaha I got a windows 11 ad on this video

whenever i leave fullscreen in minecraft i get that windows 7 basic window, only on the older pc but still cool

i was kinda hoping for a new operating system when windows 11 came out and not just a reskin of 10

Most of thse stuff you're complaining about is fixed in insider builds

UWP are something like the APK or the IPA?? I mean, those apps uses some sort of VIrtual Machines??

Thats just Microsoft what we expected?

i have a windows 11 computer that was custom built that moved from windows 7 to 10 to 11 and it still has some windows 7 icons which makes me so mad

Not all of this is true any more (at least on the beta release of Windows 11 - the volume indicator has been changed, task manager has a new ui, etc. Most of the other things have not been updated, but Microsoft is slowly getting there.

DWM is acually a Windows Vista remaint, it's used to show Windows Aero in Vista and 7.

i havent seen that old task manager in a while

Can someone explain to me if this is only supposed to be an UI change why I need this high specs? You think my gtx1060 and i5 processor gonna explode from this small change ?

But how would they enforce bogus system requirements than?

he doesnt know that there is hidden leftovers from win7

Windows is just like a pot of soup, but the ingredent are random from the 15th centuries to the 21st centuries, and it's not very good either.

I love music Nine Circles

can we stick virus into file system without victim understand that? it opens automaticlly on OS @Enderman?

what name song in 8:50 it's kinda creepy :)

Safely Remove Hardware includes my integrated wireless network adapter as a removable device.

pretty much any dialog in the shape of those little white rectangles is from xp or vista/7

With that music i was not able to watch 20% of the video

I love the assortment of newgrounds music

everytime i need to tweak the system i run command "control" to call the control panel. i am doing this not because i want it fancy or i don't like new techs, its just because uwp settings wont do anything i need....

windows 7 will always be my favorite os <3

Why is he always making me look at his eyes in the intro?

in windows 10, when i alt+tab from a game, i have the old windows xp-styled windows 7 window list. then it remains overlaid on the screen while pressing alt key, and then the new windows 10 styled one shows up underneath. couldn't capture it, it might be possible to do so with obs or some screen recording software.

they updated the paint and notepad in windows 11 its even in the RTM u should update apps through microsoft store

All of these reasons are why windows 11 is slower than windows 10

utterly unnecessary to update certain things that already been perfect
if you comparing to mac os. mac os is already perfect since acquire NeXT step, they only added new features and refresh themes
same as windows, but some of them feels inconsistent in one and another and more contrast, Mac Os in other hand is already make their Os stay consisted (sort of?)
This video is about addressing inconsistency of Windows, but i'm not fan some of legacy apps or settings is necessary give an update. Especially a features or settings that typical users not use that in their daily basis.
Do people still use dial-up in 2022? i dont think if that really practical

doesnt the B in BSOD actually stand for blue?

They are discounting mail and replacing it with outlook

I'm not going to sit through and watch this. It is hard to read the captions at the same time as following what is going on on the screen. Narration would work much better.

The boot animation can be changed to Windows 10 S's with WinAero Tweaker and Paint recently had an update... but yea I've been saying the rest since it LEAKED (especially as one who does design) 💀💀💀💀💀

nine circles

this nine circles hits

all windows 11 is just a reskinned windows 10 hell the NT version is still 10.0

Why did you change the video's name?

Enderman using nine circles song
me:geometry dash

4:09 I saw it, when I changed back from full-screen mode, but if I kill logonui.exe, it will get a Windows classic style.

finally i found your secret, you are a gd ( geometry dash) player

Half of the stuff you are complaining about have already been fixed in the dev versions

the beta changes most of these features to match windows 12

Hey enderman… I have a special request.. please fufill this. So I installed an app on windows 11 (my main pc with everyone’s insurance and data) and it also self installed web companion. (Adware) and I disabled the start up. Can’t find it anywhere to delete. And I need you to find a way to delete it please. I’m desperate

Hey enderman… I have a special request.. please fufill this. So I installed an app on windows 11 (my main pc with everyone’s insurance and data) and it also self installed web companion. (Adware) and I disabled the start up. Can’t find it anywhere to delete. And I need you to find a way to delete it please. I’m desperate

Hey enderman… I have a special request.. please fufill this. So I installed an app on windows 11 (my main pc with everyone’s insurance and data) and it also self installed web companion. (Adware) and I disabled the start up. Can’t find it anywhere to delete. And I need you to find a way to delete it please. I’m desperate

Hey enderman… I have a special request.. please fufill this. So I installed an app on windows 11 (my main pc with everyone’s insurance and data) and it also self installed web companion. (Adware) and I disabled the start up. Can’t find it anywhere to delete. And I need you to find a way to delete it please. I’m desperate

Some pop ups in Windows 11 follow the same style as those in windows 8 metro
It’s bad like really bad
They just updated the volume OSD and just looks like they took it from a Linux distro or some android skin

what happens if you take the win11 dwm dll and put it in a stock windows 10 install?

Windows 11 is rushed for sale after the pandemic of Covid-19

one thing the more we push Microsoft to update there apps the worst is going to get

They just can't delete anything they've written 😂

THE OS SHOWING WINDOWS 10 PRO ON REGEDIT WAS SOOOOOOOO EMBARRASSING

8:14 they changed that too

find a way to to move files by dragging them over to the taskbar to the app of your choosing in windows11

People be like Win 11 only redesigned a few things its not a separate product and its so trash Win 7 was so much better but Win 7 was basicly was a remastered version of Vista

for the windows 7 window thing if you are developing a winforms application in visual studio you can see a windows 7 styled window lol

Thanks algorythm i needed that

windows 11 just sucks. i hate it. i had to fully wipe my pc to stop my pc from lagging again.

The Calculator has been updated

You forgot the windows 8 bitlocker password prompt

Yep, Windows is a patchwork and the code base is probably is hacked mess on life support. I switched to macos two weeks ago because of how unusable windows became on my machine.

Windows is so messed up it srsly needs help

Linux is almost as old and defiantly has some cruft especially in the kernel which I could rant about monolithic kernels for years but it's defiantly not as bad seems

My body is still blue

im gonna go on microsofts side for a milisecond, the hotbar is different. the placement is differend... and thats it. i diddent stay on their side for even half of a milisecond. the rest is the same but retextured. also if you have a bad enough pc (i found that one out without your method) you can see the thing of windows 7 (i just used f11)

i agree with all but one... ms paint has an update. more like a revamp with similar feel

Weird that volume thingy is totaly diffrent and more in win 11 style for me.

5:30, my task manager doesn't look like that...? Windows 11 has had its own task manager for awhile for me

Because I have a different version of windows 11, the acsseability looks different.

What do we have here? Windows 10 21H2 build 22000.51

Hate the music. Love the content

It's still in development dude

I hate Microsoft and Windows because none of the development efforts actually focus on the important things. Things like fixing kernel bugs (this is the reason why the NT kernel is a failure and will never be as stable as the XNU kernel or the Linux kernel) as well as pushing technologies and progress, slowly ditching old protocols and committing to newer ones.

In my opinion, macOS proves that you don't need a redesign to make your OS better because it didn't get a full UI overhaul in years. The real updates happened under the hood, in the kernel. Windows only focuses on how it looks as a means to save face when it comes the the OS failing and crashing because of bad, non-POSIX-compliant, proprietary kernel code.

Windows sucks.

4:31 I have this program!

4:58 Haha, uncensored Product ID.

Windows 95, my favorite daily driver!

I even ran vista drivers in windows 10. works perfectly and even the gpu driver.

I just checked paint, and Microsoft made newer version with different interface and newer about window.

If u hold f12 in minecraft java u see the windows 7 border

i don't use win11 at all. in my eyes, win11 is bad. i would run it on my PC, and it would be so problematic. it's supported hardware, though it is terrible to run.

2nd highest net worth company and the developers are lazy as hell

I didnt know you can make a very very long arse paint image

i knew it from the start windows 11 was going to be a ui update

The music is fucking sick, what is it?

Please enderman.. Help my request.. In crying.. I don't want to loose my data

What's with the windows 7 and XP stuff being left over? that's just ridiculous, some of it is just unnecessary.
Windows 10X was way better than this

Proof that the past is upon us.

epic nine circles song goin on here

Actually if you press Windows+p on the lockscreen in Windows 11 the bar appears with Windows 8.1 style and metro animation

12:34 can anyone tell him that windows 11 has redesigned paint and stop clickbaiting by downloading the old paint

This is actually one of the reasons why I switched to Linux, among many others. These remnants aren’t just either silly, annoying or useless, but they WASTE ENERGY, which is beyond stupid especially when THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS EXISTED FROM 2014!!!!!!! Yes, taking over SOME features from previous versions is OK for familiarity and backwards compatibility, but THIS? I used to have 6% peaks of CPU use WITHOUT HAVING ANY PROGRAM RUN AT ALL! On Linux, it’s 1, maybe 2%.

where do you find your wallpaper

USB safe removal is not a win7 feature. wtf are you smoking?

why nine circles

nine circles why

When typing ver into cmd it literally says windows 10

I have a windows 11 PC I wish I could throw windows 8.1 on but they won’t let you do that without a key my OEM windows 11 key won’t work

some things changed like some programs dialogues etc.

Finaly This Video Is back

Do you play geometry dash or why are you using this music XD