Windows 11 could kill Control Panel faster, as Microsoft quietly tests Settings in the Microsoft Store

4 days ago by uidev to c/windows11

Project Odeon, a Microsoft Store app with the Settings icon, hints that Windows 11 Settings could update outside Windows Update. We tried it.

stoly 22 points 4 days ago

The control panel is the place with the most useful options.

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WhoIzDisIz 14 points 4 days ago

Therefore it must die.

I really fucking hate this timeline.

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RedIce25 12 points 4 days ago

Amazing how it's taken this long, if the full on transition to the new settings app was done when Windows 10 released it might have matured by now and actually felt usable

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wreckedcarzz 7 points 3 days ago

They started 'replacing' the control panel with the release of w8 lol. Just 15 years to do one task. I wish I could do two tasks, take 30 years, then get a fat bonus + 401k on my way out the door, laughing the whole way.

Maybe it's just an agreement with all the windows devs that they will do fuck-all to force the user shift we are seeing now. Upper management has no clue and everyone is in agreement with things like 'putting the taskbar back on the top edge is going to require 5 years and 2m R&D' 'understandable, whatever it takes'.

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Dudewitbow 2 points 3 days ago

They take years to inplement a rewrite,

But management comes down and says copilot copilot copilot and they get that shit out in short time.

Windows development team isnt working on trying to get a better product as long as the first goal management thinks of is profitability.

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kokesh 5 points 3 days ago

They should keep control panel and kill off settings. That whole UI is so idiotic.

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Romkslrqusz 2 points 3 days ago

Settings is much more consumer friendly, it’s fairly consistent with how mobile OS Settings apps work.

Control panel is much nore suitable to power users.

Honestly, they ought to keep both. They’re essentially just GUI for changing registry entries anyways.

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Fizz 3 points 3 days ago

I swear the settings in the new settings menu move around and its fucking annoying. They also only reveal the surface level stuff and make you dig to find the actual configuration options. Grr I hate windows

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