I think of Microsoft’s bad habit of introducing meaningless superficial changes to the interface but they also keep legacy software working for a long long time. (Office ‘97 works fine on Win 11)
The strangest thing about this is in the system configuration dialogs where they have a set of really gee whizzy modern configuration screens but you still have to go into 15 year old screens to do many common tasks —- they updated some but kept the old ones that they did not have time to update which is a little ugly but fine because they old ones work 100%.
I used to have “who moved my cheese?” moments all the time with Windows circa 2005 when I was admining Windows and having to deal with configuration screens in ‘98, 2000, XP and various versions of Windows Server, they couldn’t resist making superficial changes that annoyed me to no end.
The strangest thing about this is in the system configuration dialogs where they have a set of really gee whizzy modern configuration screens but you still have to go into 15 year old screens to do many common tasks —- they updated some but kept the old ones that they did not have time to update which is a little ugly but fine because they old ones work 100%.
I used to have “who moved my cheese?” moments all the time with Windows circa 2005 when I was admining Windows and having to deal with configuration screens in ‘98, 2000, XP and various versions of Windows Server, they couldn’t resist making superficial changes that annoyed me to no end.