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Shouldn’t they focus on replacing the garbage new stuff based on browser tech rather than legacy apps that work fine?
They replace it. Slowly, but they replace. Windows Search and the Calendar was the first.
What improvements does this have over the existing app? The UI looks worse because I can't see nearly as much at once. And that seems to be the biggest difference. Is it faster, especially when searching?
I'd even say it's even worse, because it's missing all the colors that the old one had. Now it's more difficult to distinguish between different types of data.
I'm looking forward to being forced to re-adapt to yet another vibe coded and totally needless UI for no reason.
They've been fucking up UI long before vibe coding was a thing.
Oh, absolutely. They've been pioneers in the needlessly-redesigning-every-UI-just-to-add-one-more-pointless-click-to-everyone's-workflow department.
Web technologies also multiplied their effectiveness at making UIs consistently worse (Teams is the perfect example, but all their Azure AD and Entra dashboards are hell on earth to use and navigate, too).
I love needing 5 clicks and 3 screens just to find my local IP /s
Accessibility is nice for users like me. If it supports dark mode, the larger text means I can read it much easier. I struggle with the olde stuff that is forced to be tiny on my monitor and doesn't understand dark mode.
Modernizing a lot of older software largely just means making text bigger and adding more borders around it.
I will say scrolling through regedit currently makes my eyes glaze over. If they do something beyond big text to help readability I'd be all down for it.
Same speed, apparently. It's an alpha in the better case, so this is not represensative to the public version. Another possible future is MS never release it. We can't know.
I hope so, but I don't have great confidence when the demo on that site shows significant delays opening each key and I already see how bog-slow W11 is, even with enough RAM to piss off Sam Altman.
The fastest way through registry if you know what you want, is typing the first few letters of a key name and I expect this will kill off the ability to quickly type through to the key you want.
If I had any, I'd put money on it being slower than the original. While the joke is that it was designed for win95 but typical PCs back then had 4-16MB (not a typo, megabytes) of RAM so shit had to be optimized due to the limitations of the day just to make it all work.
Modern Windows are full of prefetching, network and bluetooth services, etc.
Perhaps a better question would have been, what are the proposed improvements, if any?
There are probably advantages maintenance wise if it's just getting rid of legacy code.
Better performance imo, but hard to day at this point of development.
Took them 30 years to reskin an app.
Plus it was likely vibe coded.
Idk.
Better than never lol
Windows 11 reg edit always looked like win 95
Today yes, but that he said is the New Reg it's modern.
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