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

You can also find the windows 3.1 file selection dialog

VIdeo was named "The state(lemate) of Windows".

maybe it was touched to make it work on 64 bit (MAYBE)

*maybe* it was touched to make it work on 64 bit *(MAYBE)*

@@alexandrubossro since windows 10 is based off nt and nt started around 1993 (NT 3.1x and 3.51) i could say thats not true

In Windows XP it was actually touched, but the changes reversed after a new version of Windows.


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 :(

Imo, win 7 is still the perfect windows to this day. Minimal inconsistency, maximal performance and experience.

@@skye5130 too bad Microsoft abandoned them. Honestly if Microsoft retained some of the features to make windows more consistent and pick-choosing them, i am fine with "reskinned windows". Example, stick with control panel and no need for PC settings. Then stick with windows 8 task manager which is obviously better than windows 7. I don't like how control panel and PC settings coexist nowadays.. and other things.

@idk what to put here But they won't. They need that sweet sweet user data to sell to advertisers for lucrative profits.

@idk what to put here lmao? Mac is equally as bad as windows really

If you use the dev stage all of the problems are now fixed

@@DansuB4nsu03 Using Unix doesn't mean they can't add telemetry, but I do agree that they won't use Unix.

i only know one menu in windows 11 that doesn't have a dark theme now

At least we don't have 2 calculators like in Windows 8

@@_GhostMiner funny thing, windows 10's calculator got the windows 11 treatment long before windows 11 was even leaked
it was among the first of the tests they were doing to see if remaking legacy programs would be worth while
eventually they said f it and decided to make windows 11,

windows 11 was made for 2 reasons, to give people a reason to not have life breaking updates that delete your hard drive and to improve user experience in ways that just haven't been possible in their development strides in 10

@@XZYSquare its still a shltty windows 10 reskin.

CHANGE MY MIND

@@_GhostMiner to understand how shitty windows 11 is compared to windows 10 we need to look at how windows 8 was a shitty windows 7 clone, deleted the start menu, made apps that were not windows, they could only be used in fullscreen, and you could only put two of them on the screen at one time. say goodbye to the transparency in the titlebar, and in the taskbar. you did not have built in controller support, you could not have fun games to play out of the box on the actual desktop side. those instead were preinstalled apps you had to use in fullscreen. you had missing file explorer features. you had a generally more flat appearance.

windows 10 at it's start was a minor improvement to windows 8. adding back transparency and a startmenu.

over the years microsoft reskinned the os almost every major content update.

these content updates changed so much that it broke the os. people started reporting that their files were going missing. others found that it became totally unusable. people whined about this and microsoft listened.

they said, fine if you want a better experience you will have to wait for windows 11. windows 11 rolls around improving the animations and the cleanlyness of the part of the os we use most. removing clutter that doesn't belong on the taskbar such as the "show people on the taskbar" "show cortana button" "show windows stacked" "show windows side by side". it's not gone, just moved to the settings.

windows 11 made more progress towards making the colors of your theme fit the rest of the desktop. such as dark theme in the file explorer which took microsoft 3 whole years to implement into windows 10. windows 10 struggled with a problem that they were unable to reskin much at all. they struggled with updating their old catelog of programs to the modern style.

windows 10 didn't even try to update the original paint program. they didn't try to update the notepad. they didn't put any effort into updating snip and sketch. there were contenxt menus that were from windows xp still accessable by right clicking in various locations. even worse was windows 10's blatant use of windows vista and 8 volume menus. worse was the mixed use of the control panel and the settings app. worse was 10's difficulty with browsing the settings page. the windows 10 settings page makes no sense and it generally takes alot of time just to do the simplest change. there's 2 entirely different themes pages in the windows 10 settings app. there's 3 pages related to mouses, only accessable using side text things and clicking those didn't guaruntee you would be going where you want.

windows 11 made it more accessable to people. buttons instead of wierd text links, a similar content thing at the bottom where you can actually see the pages that belong to that category. better is the overall ui is easier to scan through. it's less cluttered, more animated, and much easier. context menus in windows 11 from my experience are all basically the same. that is unless you use mozilla or google chrome which decided it's still a good idea to use right click menus from windows xp. windows 11 improves on windows 10's acrylic transparency things. windows 11 places your speaker default changing right into the volume picker. in that same place you can change the wifi you're logged into, you can also see the battery percentage of your bluetooth devices in the bluetooth dropdown.

windows 10's taskview does not have life imrpovement features. you have to click the button then mvoe your mouse all the way to the top and then click the new desktop button. doing this does not open a very nice looking menu. it looks like it was slapped together in one day.

windows 11 on the other hand shows you a list of desktops when you hover over the icon. click the icon and you have a nice menu with the desktops at the bottom. much more accessable. it is more clear with the windows 11 menu what is possible.

if you wanted to change the wifi on windows 10 you have to go through the windows 8 style sidebar to do anything. there's no consistancy to windows 10.

the uninstall button in the start menu does not bring you to the settings in windows 10, it brings you to a slow gui that takes forever to count the number of programs you have installed it doesn't even have a dark theme. the dark theme on windows 10's programs and features page is broken. it looks like the time during development during 2017. this is how it looks on 10 in 2022.

in windows 11 paint and notepad got a fresh new coat of paint. no pun intended. this is an app that's much more accessable. this menu actually scales with your screensize instead of staying the same size no matter what.

at launch windows 11 did have problems with drag and drop with the taskbar. they fixed that in the latest update. you can now drag files to apps through the taskbar again.

no freshly made program is going to be perfect at launch. this is why day 1 patches happen to everything. this is why every game that ever existed has bugs.

the problem with amd cpus not allowing people into 11, i agree they shouldn't be saying that. but, who's to stop them.

windows 11 has a much nicer microsoft store page, in a future update we have a similarly new xbox app that's also alot simpler and easier to use.

don't get me started on windows 10's dependancy on internet explorer. the reason we could not uninstall internet explorer was because every feature that relied on the internet was doing it through internet explorer. deleting internet explorer would cause the windows 10's microsoft store to stop functioning. games stopped functioning. cortata who's that, oh some assistant that people hated so much that they kept uninstalling so much that microsoft said fine it's not going to stay preinstalled on the latest windows 10, as a result was not included as a part of the package on windwos 11. the experience with setting up windows 11 does not start with "hi i'm cortana i'm here to help you set up your pc". you complain to microsoft and they will attempt to improve the experience. if you just say that bad make  that die that not going to be enough info to improve. that's why you say make die cortana. lol bro

i could really keep going but i'm sure you don't actually want to read this. you asked for proving how windows 11 is worse than 10, but you likely said that because you're too lazy to actually try it yourself have a nice day lol

@@XZYSquare thanks for wasting your time to make a TED talk nobody came to.
And windows/Microsoft store is the most pointless piece of turd ever made.
Windows 11 is a shltty windows 10 reskin.
End of story. Bye, bye.
See you later

@@_GhostMiner now you may wonder how i know so much about windows 10, i used it every single day since the day it came out, similarly i used windows 8 and 8.1 every day they were the primary version of windows

@@aetimes2 how redesigned and terrible?it's just a simple window with text formatting options

@@_GhostMiner personally I feel like a lot of the things I use often are more inconvenient to access. though I understand it's not like that for everyone

@@XZYSquare good for you! I personally feel the opposite way /nm /nh /lh

@@XZYSquare well they definitely failed at the last one

@@aetimes2 considering the notepad executable doesn't really do anything when ran and Windows just detects when that specific file is ran to launch some ugly looking version of notepad from the Microsoft store, that makes it even worse

@@nahrafeThere is still inconsistency in Win 7, but it is barely noticeable compared to later versions of Windows and most of the apps in Windows 7 that are used on a daily actually respect the aero ui of Windows 7

@@nahrafewindows 8.1 i would say,it’s a more modern 7

@@nahrafeYeah, now that windows 8.1 lost support this year we have to use wither 10 or 11

@@skye5130 the updated notepad pretty annoying when tabs, so i think notepad for tabs, wordpad for no tabs


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.

Keeping up with backwards compatibility while rewriting wouldn't be that well done prob.

its funny microsoft owns the biggest open source website

@@DiamondZombie But it surely is possible with enough time, passion and effort. And to clarify, they need to rewrite only the UI. WinAPI is fine mostly.

@@DiamondZombie Microsoft is a multi trillion dollar company. I'm sure they can figure out how to update Windows 98 dialogs without breaking backwards compatibility.

Microsoft has broken backwards compatibility plenty of times before. In many respects, Wine has superior compatibility with legacy Windows app then Windows 11 does. Of course, OSX's backwards compatibility (or lack thereof) makes Microsoft look like absolute gods.

@@poudink5791 i can still run windows xp games perfectly fine on windows 11

@@XZYSquare It's funny the website isn't open source itself

Yeah, but open source can suffer the same problems, such as politics within the people writing it or few people actively writing said code, making updates move at a snail's pace for example

@@LasagaMan One prime example of that would be DeSmuME, the Nintendo DS emulator. Its developers actively refused to optimize Pokémon games just because they didn't like them (and because the children Pokémon community was being toxic, to be fair).

However, that happened and there is melonDS now, and while there is still a small community around DeSmuME, it's slowly dying.

Another example could be Canonical pushing snaps into Ubuntu, but other than that, I can't think of any other examples, especially in very big projects like VLC, Linux, etc.

As for the updates...yeah...log4j

Instead of writing a new dialer, they recompiled the Windows <b>3.1</b> dialer (not even the XP one??) to 64-bit and focused more on putting ads in your start menu

Instead of writing a new dialer, they recompiled the Windows *3.1* dialer (not even the XP one??) to 64-bit and focused more on putting ads in your start menu

@@XZYSquare My dad was able to run Windows XP era software no problem on Windows 8.1 and I managed to get a game from Windows 98 to run fine on 7

@@XZYSquare If a website hosts opensource, why can't it be opensource itself?

i switched to windows in 2009 because i looked poor to my friends and got a windows 6.1 (7)

Talking about open-source as a solution to bad software 😂😂😂 Meanwhile Wayland

@@themirrazz <br>It's very understandable, what you want to express. But hey... That's a very bad way to summarise what Windows is. Windows is still cool and modern, with great features and if you don't like the ads you right click and remove them. It should take 3 seconds (or 1 minute if you're a doomed soul that must have to use Windows 10 or 11 on a hard drive).

@@themirrazz
It's very understandable, what you want to express. But hey... That's a very bad way to summarise what Windows is. Windows is still cool and modern, with great features and if you don't like the ads you right click and remove them. It should take 3 seconds (or 1 minute if you're a doomed soul that must have to use Windows 10 or 11 on a hard drive).


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.

did you deadass just say that libadwaita can be "themed at a system level"<br>libadwaita themes are like windows themes. they're not officially supported and they break all the time.

did you deadass just say that libadwaita can be "themed at a system level"
libadwaita themes are like windows themes. they're not officially supported and they break all the time.

@@poudink5791 No, I said it was a central theme engine. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply all the theme engines I listed are themeable, just that they are centralized. I know you can't with libadwaita, just that it's not handled by apps individually.

@@onelazynoob15 you can theme it if you recompile or override with GTK_THEME, it's not officially supported but works just fine.

Windows has customizable high contrast themes

Windows 8.1 and 7 were the peak of customisation

Windows Remake in the year 2040. Will it be a remake? Probably they'll call it something new and present is a golden apple or Rolex or something something I dunno. Or will it even happen? If everyone ends up with quantum micro computers then we'll still have Windows. Windows Infinite Horizon Edition ™.


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

Updated alredy on first launch of Windows 11

I preferred the small pop-up from windows 7, it was way less irritating than the entire pop-up. On android, a small pop-up is way better than the whole pop-up while I wish I could just customize as sound only to overcome the hassle. Notice the converse between windows and android.

the worst part is when it tabs you out of fullscreen apps


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.

They most likely only did it to win 8 too because it was meant to be a shared operating system with Windows Phones.

The CEO of Microsoft during the Windows 8 era was Steve Ballmer. Then the CEO was changed for Satya Nadella, who is still the CEO of the company. That's probably the reason for the poor management.


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.

The 9x installer uses 3.1, similar to how 10+ uses PE.

You can actually change some files and boot into the classic Program Manager (progman.exe) instead of explorer.exe, and without explorer.exe running on modern Windows when you minimize the windows have windows 3.1 behavior

Edit: Progman is only on 95 (maybe 9x in general, only tried on 95)

For a reason or another , windows is a cake with a lot of layers , with xp+ programs , 11 is a xp vista 7 8 and 10 cake with rounded corners and new icons

look for the offline web pages folder in windows 11

@@leolaus I forgot about that. Just went and checked it on Windows 10 (I haven't got the new hardware for Windows 11 yet). Still has the same icon it's had since god knows when (looks like it could be from Windows 95 era). If you open it, it also has a Windows 7 style command bar and the ribbon is hidden.<br>Downloaded Program Files is a similar case, though, by the release of Windows 10, it no longer has a special icon.

@@leolaus I forgot about that. Just went and checked it on Windows 10 (I haven't got the new hardware for Windows 11 yet). Still has the same icon it's had since god knows when (looks like it could be from Windows 95 era). If you open it, it also has a Windows 7 style command bar and the ribbon is hidden.
Downloaded Program Files is a similar case, though, by the release of Windows 10, it no longer has a special icon.

It wasn't a secret. They did say that they modify the prevous version to make the new one

My first windows PC was a windows 3.1 pc

@@aleserver2454 That's true. Though it would be nice if they would update every part of the UI so that it's consistent. Instead, they update some things, but leave others untouched for decades, thinking no one will notice or care.


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

Windows 11 still comes with older versions of many updatable apps on clean installs (as of 21H2)

its actually fine rn.. except some dirt to scrape off.. like dialer.exe from W95 <br>that's honestly not needed as anyone who still needs it would not have a computer that can even run windows 10

its actually fine rn.. except some dirt to scrape off.. like dialer.exe from W95
that's honestly not needed as anyone who still needs it would not have a computer that can even run windows 10

Even the current "open with" UI is kind of slow (if you compare to how fast Windows 7 open with dialog opens, you know what I’m talking about), but it isn’t buggy, so at least it has that going for it. And why do I have to click show more programs and scroll down to select a custom program?

@@MarkusMaal Probably to prevent users who don't know what they're doing from opening files with programs that don't support the file's type

1:20 windows 11 is literally windows 10, but windows 11 has apis that windows 10 does not, and the update to get windows 11's new designs are only possible after updating to windows 11. You're not getting a different calculator you're just updating to the new version

true and my windows refuses to upgrade to 22h2@@ThatRandomToast


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

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.

Aka incorporating the Start Menu from 10X

A microsoft employee made Eartrumpet compare it with the windows volume mixer. Its just old. Also I found out that the volume mixer of windows is from xp. Strange they didn't thought of such a god feature

Also microsoft: also, you're fired. We don't take kindly to folks with actual new ideas in here.

what's wrong with coding extra stuff? that's how every version of Windows/Mac/Linux is made.

@@𰻝 they code unnecessary stuff and bloating the os therefore

@@seven7000_ cant wait for bloatdows 20 where the iso is 100 gb or/and is extra slow and requires tpm 100 and 32 ram and idk


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

a complete install of windows98/95  takes up less then 5gb

Oh boy you wouldn't believe the minority who still use those old assets, such as dial-up
Those are like for the military and 80 year old grandpas, changing them would just make it worse for them
MS is in a dilemma, if they change it, a specific group suffers and everybody complains about "compatability" and them "making it worse"
If they dont, we complain about old remnants

@@commandgames4857 not even 500 mb. minimal install of windows 95 takes 90 mb, and complete takes ~130 mb.


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

yeah i mean they still have the code for 7's and vista's ui

@@SlimbTheSlime but it sucks and is just overlaid on top of 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

Windows is literally spyware now. Get linux mint.


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.

Microsoft said there would be one big update every year so it would be 23

@@Cart1416 22H2 is the main build number for the current insider build so it will be late 22, October typically. You just might not see it until early 23 unless you manually upgrade.

@@AlexWinExperiments a decade? More like 4 decades.

I don't even see Windows 11 as an unfinished product, I see it as a patch to Windows 10. Windows 7 was honestly the last OS in which Microsoft actually cared about changing stuff instead lazily add an UI overlay, like look at Windows 11's taskbar: incomplete and LITERALLY an Overlay for the hidden Windows 10 one! Windows 8 was pretty knowingly a shit update, but at least stuff fitted way better since it was pretty much similar to Windows 7, and the Metro stuff was more like a different world from Win32 in which everything actually fitted together

I hate it when all the new laptops now are bundled with W11. I've been planning to downgrade my recent one because all the crappy issues that has been coming up just few days after purchase

@@ark8705 I personally daily drive Windows 11, and the experience hasn't been too much different than 10 (minus the occasional broken UI element, which @Francesco Castaldo hit the nail on the head earlier about, it's not a new OS by any means). I run on the latest insider builds, but my base also is a clean install by myself and not an OEM bloat install (Granted every windows version is full of M$ bloat now). That being said, given how I've seen windows 11 in the wild (I work as a systems administrator for context). I really can't recommend it for anyone, and it seems to be especially bad if you've upgraded from 10 to 10.1 (I mean 11)

@@ark8705 The biggest pain will be newer laptops and components in general only supporting/working better with Windows 11. As of now, I didn't see any driver working in Windows 10 not to work in 11, and viceversa, but I saw some older drivers that used to work on windows 10 stopping to work on there after an update for example, and it's even more common the other way around as patches and updates come and change something somewhat critical to the device driver

@@francescocastaldo7469 windows 7 is just a reskin of Vista and Vista is the truly last "major" version of Windows by NT version number.  (WinXP was 5.1, Win Vista was 6.0, 7 was 6.1, 8 was 6.2, 8.1 was 6.3, 10 was 6.4 before they renamed it to 10, and 11 is not even NT 10.1)

Yea I know NT version number mean nothing nowadays (since people look at the build number most of the times anyways) but still if they can't even bother to change the NT version number (such as for Windows 11) I don't really see them as a major product to be honest

Linux is unfinished since its existence 😂

@@leocompany It's designed to be though as the core idea of Linux is rolling improvements, so in this case being unfinished is kind of its strength. Windows can't work this way due to its hyperfocus on backwards compatibility.

@@leocompany Consider KDE Plasma: everything is unified and blends together and it's all designed carefully with the same Breeze UI and it's overall very polished, whilst Windows 11 has 7 different UI designs overlaid on top of each other with leftovers everywhere and redundant software and broken functions.

@@AtrixRBX ew. Windows 10 S is just proof of the direction that Microsoft wants their dumb OS to go towards. Walled Garden anyone?

It's now industry standard and we are doing that too in our coding shop.

they updated the offfline weppages folder icon


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

i dont like the new ui tbh. i liked the old windows 10 ui (and the volume slider, its a lot harder to see it now which can get very obnoxious for me)


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.

I think way earlier than that lol. I saw some left overs from Windows 95 once.

All OS vendors stack new versions on top of others, but they have the good taste to hire some UI designers to re-design the UI of the old stuff and make it modern. That way, the code underneath might be 20 years old and you'd never know. Microsoft just don't have the good taste to do that.

@Δημήτρης-θ7θ

Everybody who took even a brief look at Windows source code (which is publicly available since 2004) knows that all Windows versions share a common source code, with new features just added to that already existing code. It isn't news, at all.
Windows sources are full of directives like #ifdef WINNT, that separate parts those are specifically for NT-based systems (NT, 2000, XP and all later versions) and those are specifically for 9x (95/98/ME).
The main difference between 9x and NT is char type: ANSI for 9x, UNICODE for NT.

But even without source code, it's pretty obvious that all Win versions have a lot in common, like seriously.
Same file and catalog structure, same dialog window all over GUI, same tiny little things of behaviour, same registry with a small set of keys unique for 9x against NT, and even smaller set for versions inside two major branches.


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

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

What most people are glossing over is that they never threw the old tools away when they could have. Think about how much worse it would be if they had, and any other company would have thrown away the tools. Might have to make a video about that, it's frustrating how one sided some of these conversations can get. The irony is that if they had done as many want them to do, Windows would have been truly ruined. I know that there have been times where you've been thankful to have the old control panel (especially if you ever used Windows 8), come on now. The irony is that you're giving them way too much credit. We need the backcompat because Microsoft takes an entire decade to get new UX correct. ☺

At least we can pick the lock using 3rd party tools and regedit


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.

The easiest way I can think of is using a special/optional key shortcut. Move the screen zoom while the service is active with the directional keys with smooth scroll to ease the eyes too.

Why not just use the display DPI setting? It’s in the display settings.

@@andrewgaming1117 Well, that usually just removes the amount of workspace I have on the screen, and it's applied all the time, not only when I need it. I mean, I could get a new monitor, but the one I have's been good enough for the most part.

@@moister3727 Oh yeah, it has shortcuts, WIN++ and - are ingrained within the side of my brain. I've been partial to just using the mouse to navigate since that's the most convenient to navigate.

@@hunnybon It's easier with key shortcuts if you ask me, specially if you can customize the bindings. I don't know how can you do that on Windows or if it's permanent, my setup to zoom on Linux is like I described up there.

I just want to get rid out of the mouse whenever possible.

@@moister3727 Oh! I've used Linux a couple times, KDE has the best out of all the desktops in my opinion, very smooth and easy to customize.

@@hunnybon I'm more keyboard-centric guy if you ask me, i3 fits my porfolio. KDE is awesome nonetheless, very customizable and a lots of options to play with.

@@moister3727 Very fair, i3 has lots of benefits over regular window managers, I think tiling and non tiling have things over each other that depends on taste, I could never get into it, but it was pretty neat.

@@hunnybon Yeah, I just learned about WM early this year. It's all about shortcuts and customization in my opinion. Very practical but it takes time to get into it.

@@moister3727 i use BSPWM. thankfully i don't have any visual disabilities but it's so nice not having to use the mouse everywhere

@@kantraa Exactly. Specially on a laptop which is 100% convinient.

I only use the mouse in case I want to play a game here in there or need to do common office tasks.

I'd say you can try playing on windowed mode and disable "full screen optimization" in properties of that app.

Because when you play games, DiirectX takes over and you don't have as much as control in exclusive full screen

Use glasses instead of subjecting yourself to upscaled garbage


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.

Windows 8 still was an update, but we could start to have the issue. Also it seems you can BARELY start to see the issue from windows 7, even then it was great.

@@SOTP. True. Windows 8 was still part of the NT 6 Kernel.

@@SOTP.It's like Microsoft makes every version of windows slightly worse until people notice


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

making Windows look like macOS?  S E L L I N G  P O I N T .

@@itizjuan why are you speaking so many facts in one comment? C O M M E N T  P O I N T .

Also lets do a half developpement and have memory leaks!

@@SOTP. and increase hardware requirements

@@jacobmars1902 for no reason, and do it only in winpe.

@@VortexBH yo Jellybean sucks do u agree?


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.

Mem leaks is a  big no no for me. Thanks for the warning. <br>Been learning linux but kubuntu had instead entertained me by it's instability.

Mem leaks is a  big no no for me. Thanks for the warning.
Been learning linux but kubuntu had instead entertained me by it's instability.

@@ahmadnurruddinzainori8648 You should try out something XFCE based. I find it incredibly stable, I've never really had any crashes or super unusual issues with it. the UI is more windows XP-7 in its design philosophy which I prefer. It's a project that moves very slowly but I prefer that as well

@@ryjelsum Man I love xfce too but I have issues with drivers

@@retroland9703 that's not xfce's fault at all lmao

does microsoft just expect us to disable dwm which breaks almost everything


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.

didn't they erase dos from existence since the NT kernel?

The only time they actually updated it was from 9x to NT, which killed DOS.


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.

its insane how little control you truely have over your own pc when using windows

@CreativeUnoriginals If they do any more stupid things (read: next Tuesday) we defenestrate the entire staff.

for the love of god no, no buggy linux desktop

@@sayori3939 what Linux desktop? Plasma is not Linux exclusive you can compile it for bsd too.

@@utfigyii5987 and those dreadful window managers

@@sayori3939 what are you on about window managers are great if you know how to use them

@@aeter34 "if you know how to use them" that's the only thing linux users know how to say, they're buggy as fuck

@CreativeUnoriginals there are no words to describe your comment

@@sayori3939 what is buggy as fuck? I use linux mint daily and there are no bugs what so ever. The funny thing is that I switched from windows 10 due to ithaving a bug that disappeared with my wifi icon.

This “if you know how to use them” applies to other thing, not to mint, manjaro or other distross catered towards the general public.

@@sayori3939if I complained I couldn't use windows because I didn't know what a taskbar was, would that mean windows is buggy? Sure, Linux has bugs, Windows does too, one does a better job than the other at fixing them, guess which one (hint: it's the one known for it's stability for server use)


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?<br>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.

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.

I'd like to but I have always probs with drivers not optimized

@@kmmmsyr9883 No wifi adapter from tp link and I have all ryzen radeon plus I had probs with dual boot W10 on ubuntu distribs

@@retroland9703 Oh yeah stuff like adapters might be a problem, good thing I never had to deal with em, only bad thing for me is Nvidia drivers right now and I'll buy a pc with AMD this summer, so my suffering will end

@@kmmmsyr9883 well you will not have issues with nvidia soon since they open sourced their kernel.

I tried using linux (mint) on my pc awhile ago, and it was a really glitchy mess with several problems, like my audio suddenly going extremely glitchy.

@@car424 Well, computers are weird. On my computer I had audio problems when I was using Windows, for example my headphones would stop all of a sudden and I would need to plug it out and in, I never had that problem on any distro I used.

@@car424 what audio pacakge did you use? pipewire or pulseaudio?

i did not had an issue with sound on arch though.

@@car424 if its a while ago than try again since maybe that issue was fixed.

Nah I won't download Linux, I want to run .exe files

I don't got any of that (except Xbox because I actually use it) on my W10 puter TBH

@@Disbanded9998Also Linux got their own exe files in different name)

@человек-и3б7ь


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...

Not NT 4.0, but 2000. That was the last release that avoided layers in UI, almost.

All releases since then layered UIs more and more.

@@cacodemon345 At least Microsoft actually tried to make the layer system work up until Windows 7 by having many things stay the same internally, just richer and richer in functionality (you know what I mean right?)
Then they started with that UWP and web integration stuff, and everything just went downhill
Then the lazy layering started, with UI elements from Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP and freaking WINDOWS 3.1 in Windows 11
Hell, even Windows 98 was different enough from 95 to be considered a new OS
Microsoft never tries these days, instead of rebuilding the weak, unstable foundation, (as Enderman said) sanding down the rust, cleaning every stain, polishing everything properly and THEN adding a fresh new coat of paint they just throw away the sandpaper and turn over the bucket of paint and splatter that brand new UI paint all over a small area of a giant, largely neglected OS
They were right when they said 10 would be the last release... but in the worst way

@@cacodemon345 At least Microsoft actually tried to make the layer system work up until Windows 7 by having many things stay the same internally, just richer and richer in functionality (you know what I mean right?)
Then they started with that UWP and web integration stuff, and everything just went downhill
Then the lazy layering started, with UI elements from Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP and freaking *_WINDOWS 3.1_* in Windows 11
Hell, even Windows 98 was different enough from 95 to be considered a new OS
Microsoft never tries these days, instead of rebuilding the weak, unstable foundation, (as Enderman said) sanding down the rust, cleaning every stain, polishing everything properly and *_THEN_* adding a fresh new coat of paint they just throw away the sandpaper and turn over the bucket of paint and splatter that brand new UI paint all over a small area of a giant, largely neglected OS
They were right when they said 10 would be the last release... but in the worst way

@@𰻝 It is layering, honestly, the modern Windows OS goes back to 1993 or so with NT 3.1.<br>"Windows 11" is just Windows Vista, that's where we still are honestly, Windows hasn't changed internally since around 2005 or 2006

@@𰻝 It is layering, honestly, the modern Windows OS goes back to 1993 or so with NT 3.1.
"Windows 11" is just Windows Vista, that's where we still are honestly, Windows hasn't changed internally since around 2005 or 2006

This. I wish more people understood that Windows is just a release of Windows NT.

@@BetterCallBigShotAutos maybe they made the right choice. I wonder if the layers thing has anything to do with Windows 10's UI being notably smoother than Window 7 (perfect framerates on ten year old laptops with 10 when you would get more judder with 7).


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.

Especially for someone like Enderman, I'm surprised he didn't mention this (especially since he mentioned that the spinning dots on the loading screen have been around since Windows 8 beta).

That is the dev channel, which means it hasn't technically been released yet. Furthermore, it is pathetic that it is taking them over a year to actually start finishing Windows 11

True that enderman should have said it but still it's so lame that they have to fix it months after the initial release

@@DavidNgo86 win11 is basically win10 which is also win8 and that is also win7 and so it goes on. Pretty sure the kernel itself goes back to windows 7/vista (basing off the basic theme when your gpu driver crashes and the installer having win7 basic theme windows)

@@ayukovt I'm pretty sure that's from killing DWM as I did it as I was younger(idk why) and the Aero theme was gone

@@Tairex777 yes that is from killing DWM, that brings up the windows 7 basic theme but that means that the kernel of w10 or even 11 is literally win7/vista kernel (if you look at windows betas as well, new versions are based off the previous ones and it just goes through heavy skinning and adding features)

@@ayukovt 11 should have just been a major version update for 10.

@@DavidNgo86 honestly in the perfect world, microsoft would build a completely new windows version from the scratch with consistent UI and easy to use apps and features and it would have a brand new kernel and no relicts from older windows versions (obv there would be a compatibility layer in case you wanna run smth made for win8 f.e.) but we can only dream about that

@@Lexan_YT I think we can all agree Windows 11 was rushed to RTM. No doubt. But for one, Windows 11 hasn't been out for a year yet. They're releasing new feature builds every year for stable channels, instead of every 6 months like 10 was.

Now, I'm not saying Microsoft doesn't need a kick in the behind to get moving on what features users actually want, and to stop leaving things ununified, but if you're (Enderman) going to point out all the inconsistencies at least mention that changes are coming to the things you're pointing out or don't point them out at all.

@@realcomputerdude100 that's because 11 was conceived as a way for PC manufacturers to sell hardware post pandemic.

@@ayukovt that would cause problems for so many legacy apps like old games which already are a pain to get working. Windows is known for great legacy support especially for the enterprise users whose software must be from the xp days too.. all that would be destroyed and a sudden switch like that will be terrible for sales

@@johanjoe3012 imagine the headaches in an enterprise environment when software they've been using for 10+ years doesn't have a chance of working

@@johanjoe3012 that's why I said about a compatibility layer in some way or have some kind of workaround where it runs a vm with the older kernel or smth idk there might be better ways of approaching this

@@ayukovt in an ideal world,  exactly, in Microsoft eyes it's not profitable doing all that. Why do you need to sit and work compatibilities for DECADES of software when u just leave in what u already built for decades

@@ayukovt can I just repeatedly kill DWM to get vista/7 basic

@@ayukovt also I guess they could do the xp thing and mix the libraries but yeah takes a lot of work I would guess

@@ayukovt technically 11 is based on 10 based on 8.1 based on 8 based on 7 based on Vista based on xp based on 2000 based on NT4 that's how old some aspects are

@@Tairex777 that used to work on windows 8 but in 10 (11) it just blackscreens

@@emaaaaax well yea but the kernel itself got "reworked" or smth since like win7

@@emaaaaax depressing :(<br>I do still prefer Aero though but don't want the trial limits of Glass8 or WindowBlinds

@@emaaaaax depressing :(
I do still prefer Aero though but don't want the trial limits of Glass8 or WindowBlinds

He didn't even update calculator， notepad or any other uwp apps

@@tobyisawesome WAIT NOTEPAD IS UWP NOW WHAT

@@ayukovt Actually, the state windows it is in is good enough, because there is always a minority who uses a specific group of features. Maybe update the UI a bit, but thats it. The old kernel is good enough there is, quite literally, no reason to remove it. People should know more about the basics of programming, you cant create a new kernel and then have FULL compatability (which windows aims for), and some relics are useful, such as control panel, original media player and some others. Worst case scenario, windows fallbacks to classic theme or 7 basic. What would windows do in a new version? Nothing. Also, that'd take like 10 years to make and a few billions because they have to COMPLETELY REDEVELOP the entire thing

@@ayukovt Thats not how things work lmao, even if they ran a vm, the performance would be too heavy for laptop users


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

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

Why is it the general consumer's problem? If they really cared for those kind of users they would make a windows version that is separate and has both security updates and all those old dependencies, they annoy those kinds of users anyway by changing defaults and hiding settings so why pretend like they care?

@@snil4 Because that would not be financially viable. There's no company that is your friend, and there's no company, (especially a company that is traded on a stock market) that cares about consumers. Companies care about money.
But let's say that Microsoft have 2 separate versions of full-fledged Windows, one for consumers, and one for businesses.
There are two problems with that.
First one is: one Windows makes a lot more money than the other one, because businesses often pay more, or even pay, for keeping older software alive.
The second one is: why would any company keep two very similar products that are not sharing a lot of codebase?  And how could those two versions of Windows share a lot of codebase if you're going to throw away half that is there for backwards compatibility, and the other half you're going to replace with shiny new things?
You could argue “then why there's Windows 10 and Windows 11 at the same time?” but the situation there is slightly different.
First of all, Windows 10 is phased out, second of all, Windows 10 and 11 are sharing a lot of the code, so both teams aren't wasting resources just to make the same thing twice.


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

UWP, touchscreen, modern apps are getting neglected, but true, the focus is on MS Store... with old Win32 crashware/spyware and Webapps in the store.


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)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

@@ahmadnurruddinzainori8648 Zorin OS 16 Pro, would've used arch (btw) but I'm more accustomed to Debian-based distributions.

@@frostech3149 I like how easy it is to get a minimal arch install but I hate the instability of a rolling release.

@@elijahr241 No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example. Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

I will be moving to Linux when it has more software compatibility until then I'm sticking with Windows 10 ps I debloated it

@@NatetheNintendofan if you want more software compatability then you should start using linux. As most people are on windows, companies like adobe only make apps for windows.

@@autovozo5725did you just disprove yourself

@@autovozo5725 if you want more compatibility use Linux, and most apps don't make apps for Linux. I think I interpreted it incorrectly, though


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.

Or better yet, add Dark mode to Control Panel and add more Settings to it.

@@EP1CxEMAN08 why add more things to a tool added in 2009? Microsoft should just get their shit together and fix the windows settings


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.

We didn't even know Microsoft is going to release a new version of Windows until really late. We knew the Sun Valley project as Windows 10 21H2


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

That’s why windows is so heavy and sluggish on most hardware.


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 <b>3.1!</b>

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.

how were volume controls changed?<br>does the arrow next to the volume slider in the quick actions panel show a volume mixer or is it still the dumb output device?

how were volume controls changed?
does the arrow next to the volume slider in the quick actions panel show a volume mixer or is it still the dumb output device?

@@burkino7046 they changed it like this: https://youtu.be/m8bKzi7PQRU


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.

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.

I also have some XP Apps on my Windows 10 PC (mostly the Games but also Task Manager and Paint) and it works perfectly fine. I also use the Windows 7 Calculator.

@@JuBa012 yeah. The only win7 thing that works is the calculator which is actually downloaded from somewhere instead of taken from the windows folder

There is a winaero windows 7 task manager which works on 10

i was able to run a notification on my windows 10 pc that says something about windows XP being on its end of support somewhere in 2014 (xp_eos.exe)

@@jacobeii Did you get the file from windows xp or it is included on 10?

Quit being an NPC who uses the ulraine flag on the profile. You should have an anti-nato flag there if you truly want peace.

@@FuckTheState shut up, please 🙂

Also you misspelt Ukraine

@@FuckTheState why did you call me a Non-player character?

@@FuckTheState can you like NOT talk about this on a comment about OPERATING SYSTEMS

@@FuckTheState Ah yes, the "anti-NPC" NPC


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

@@RowanBird779 Smart screen should get merged in the UAC system and the user must have the ability to customize it as they like


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

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)’

"Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" is only for legacy backups


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.<br>Also, it could be very interesting, if you made a video 'bout all the mess they did to control panel.

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.

beeing able to set windows terminal as the default terminal is not usless and WSA has it's uses to


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

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.

Ah yes, that good ol' Windows NT 3.1 open dialog.

can't forget the WinXP login dialog in some MMCs


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

I'm going to be like those Windows 7 uses but instead of seven we use 10 cuz I ain't upgraded into Windows 11 until Windows 10 loses support

@@NatetheNintendofan man i wont upgrade even after it looses support, best i might do is move to linux


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 <i>Windows as a service</i> . A product that is always in testing, improved with updates over time.

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.

That's what windows 10 was supposed to be and they kinda broke that promise

They said the exact same thing when they released Windows 10, they promised it would be "Windows as a service" and that it would be improved with updates over time and that it would be the last version of Windows...
...
... oh wait.

Fool me once, shame on you, but believe me I'm not going to believe anything that you say from now on.


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.

It wasn't even meant to replace Windows 10. The original Windows 11 project was Windows 10X, an operating system meant specifically for dual-screen devices. Then out of nowhere they took a complete 180 and decided that it would eventually replace Windows 10.


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

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!

I found out my country has a 10% OS market share on Linux (more than macOS) and immediately jumped on board, haven’t looked back since

@@justinhamilton8647 Which country? I know Greece is one with >10% share

When regarding that most of the network infrastructure is based on Linux and even Android is, Linux is probably the mostly used OS of them all. I mean, even board computers/entertainment centers of cars often run Linux.


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.


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).<br>That applet was essential for dial-up connections and typically showed on startup when running hyperterm.

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]

Quick Assist has different uses than remote desktop connection.


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.

can't agree more! Win 11 has changed a lot UI wise (and more consistent with the fluent design language)<br>even tho dark mode isn't consistent (esp Control Panel, Run, etc...) it can be fixed via 3rd party software like StartAllBack or Rectify11

can't agree more! Win 11 has changed a lot UI wise (and more consistent with the fluent design language)
even tho dark mode isn't consistent (esp Control Panel, Run, etc...) it can be fixed via 3rd party software like StartAllBack or Rectify11


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

I mean, that was their plan originally. Not sure what prompted them to release 11 at all. Maybe they thought we'd be accepting of their changes if they didn't just force them as an update but instead released them as a new OS revision? The problem with that is that by making it a new version of Windows, they <i>greatly</i> raised the expectations for it to be of quality, which they weren't expecting.

I mean, that was their plan originally. Not sure what prompted them to release 11 at all. Maybe they thought we'd be accepting of their changes if they didn't just force them as an update but instead released them as a new OS revision? The problem with that is that by making it a new version of Windows, they _greatly_ raised the expectations for it to be of quality, which they weren't expecting.

@@invalid_user_handle It has to do with a certain company with their brand new shiny CPU design wanting a new OS built to maximize its capabilities. And of course with their CPU whitelist, a good portion of PC users simply can't get Windows 11, and when the time comes when Microsoft gives Windows 10 the axe, those who can't update will simply continue to use their outdated and "vulnerable" OS. It's exactly what happened with XP, with the main reason for its decrease in usage being that people just finally got new computers.

@@invalid_user_handle they just abandonned 10x so they thought eh, lets release it but as a new os.


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

I don't like Linux cuz I'm a gamer and Linux is not for gamers

@@NatetheNintendofan ?? linux is just as much for gamers as windows is


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-

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...

@@Lampe2020 even it happens on windows 10 inside builds


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!

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.

@@tobyisawesome yeah, a lot of UI elements that are present in Windows 8-11 still dates back all the way to Windows 7.

@@DankyMankey msft employees are working their butt off, pc companies wanted windows to release early and now they have to actually finish windows 11 for the 2022 release


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.

its all updated in the latest win11 build... The volume and brightness both have new flyouts

@@raghav_ramesh15 Thanks for letting me know! If only I installed that build on a vm to see for myself first...


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.


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 basic theme can be enabled in any edition of Windows Vista and 7.

@@ThatRandomToast Yep! It came standard with the lower-end versions of Windows though as Aero was not an option for those versions.


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.

WDYM?! Ever heard of Linux API rot where a linux binary works in one release but not later on without a rebuild/fix from source code?


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<br>at this point windows is just horribly messy

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"

*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.

Looking back,there's a few different changes from the actual release and the beta leak which is actually sad,so your theory might have some backup (for me atleast),windows 11 probably would've been an early 2022 release if it wasn't for that leak


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<br>Microsoft: Am I A Joke To You!?

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 <b>want</b> 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?

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?

Windows 11 is just to help sale after the Covid pandemic


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)<br>Edit: Task manager is also new, volume is also new, dots are no longer there, and paint has been updated too

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…<br>But your point still stands. Windows 11 is basically a shiny box from the outside with NT remnants on the inside.

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

its just my honest opinion btw. i really enjoy your vids but i don’t understand why you hate win11 so much. Its a very good system with alot of cool features and idk why is it so hated because of using old stuff which is working perfectly fine


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


Topic: State of windows<br>My brain and eyes: COOL FOX

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.

That spinning circle is from windows 10X

@@andremckenna2007 well Windows 10X is W11  before they change the name.


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

There's really no hardware limitations that prevent Windows 11 from working on any device that meets Windows 10's minimum specs, it's all about the CPU whitelist that Microsoft implemented. They apparently didn't learn their lesson with Windows XP EoL, where the only thing that got users to upgrade their OS was simply that their computers no longer did what they needed them to and bought new ones.


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."