Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to

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    7 months ago

    You can’t compare adding extra clicks to do a function that has been available in an OS for decades to a company releasing an entire new product with a new OS.

    We don’t want things tucked away, my very non-techy savvy parents call me all the time for help and it’s no wonder because UI just gets less and less intuitive every year, with more things buried into context menus.

    It’s literally changing things for the sake of it, to make things subjectively “pretty”, adding as much padding as possible and shiny effects.

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      7 months ago

      Just use the classic control panel if that’s the case. It’s still there. You’d probably still recognize parts of it from Windows 3.1.1.

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        7 months ago

        That’s not the point is it. Obviously I can hack the shit out it and install stuff to get it close to how I want, but the point is that is what its like default. That’s like saying I can’t complain about web UX because I can just edit the HTML/CSS!