A little digging reveals that parts of Windows 11's code and user interface are a legacy of the past, even dating back to the days of Windows 95 and Windows NT. against
Windows 11
, Microsoft's newest operating system, is still struggling to convince many Windows 10 users to switch operating system. However, the two operating systems share a lot of code. And not just with Windows 10…
A closer look reveals that some parts of the code and user interface are relics of the past, even dating back to the days of Windows 95 and Windows NT.
The screenshot, for example, with three buttons to work, reset or aggregate, is a direct inheritance of Windows 95. These days, certain options for the main parameters menu direct to the screen of the original dialogue control Board. Even the notes and error messages sometimes display style and language that seem like they're from another era.
“Temporary” tools that have survived through the ages
Dave W. Plummer, a developer who worked on Windows NT in the 1990s, He tells like this An anecdote that well illustrates the persistence of old icons in Windows 11.
He developed a formatting utility for Windows NT in 1994, which was initially intended to be a temporary solution.
I took a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you can make regarding disk formatting, such as file system, naming, cluster size, compression, encryption, etc. Then I pulled up VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to present a simple vertical array of all the choices you need to make, in the rough order you need to make them. It wasn't elegant, but it did the job until the sleek UI came along.
This formatting tool is still present in Windows 11, almost 30 years later. Beautiful story.
