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Comment Re:Actual technical answer (Score 2) 117

Yeah, that is a pretty easy answer: technical debt and poor project management. Combine that with an incentive to always maintain backwards compatibility for the enterprise agreement signing corporations and you have a garbage dump. Big picture is Windows isn't really a single OS, it is several smashed together developed at wildly different times and Microsoft as a corporation has never once been able to finish a real centralization project like this despite talking about it since NT came out around 2000.

Comment Actual technical answer (Score 1) 117

They don't need to get rid of the control panel but the control panel only controls system32 and syswow64 (system windows on windows64) which are the subsystems of the operating system that we are all familiar with and call windows. With the new subsystems like their linux containers and also the next "universal" windows version that will run on ARM and only emulate system 32 and syswow64 There is such a wide settings sprawl that Microsoft is creating an new API called Policy CSP (configuration service provider) which is a somewhat standardized MDM compliant API for managing windows devices. This API is being expanded to cover more and more of the settings previously only controllable through the control panel, group policy and the registry. The settings app can modify these CSPs so it becomes more functional as they implement this API. They should have had this completed in 2012 for Windows 8

Comment Re:Google is a blight (Score 3, Insightful) 22

What planet do you live on that billionaire capitalists running a multi-billion dollar non-unionized advertising-tech firm "radical leftist"? It isn't earth. Radical leftists would have put the owners in gulag, Replace the Alphabet board members with a council of workers and then redistributed the profits to everyone.

Comment Must have been Russia (Score 2, Interesting) 231

As the Americans complain about external "threats" they totally ignore their own failings. The fall of the US empire will not be by Russian election interference, it will be their own short sightedness, lack of long term planning and complete disregard for the working class that hollowed out all their institutions leaving a bloated corpse with no interior behind. No lessons will be learned from Boeing and the US will continue to be hollowed out by private equity and Americans them selves all while screaming "Russia! China! Iran" Sad.

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