Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.
Hmm. Not sure I agree. The initial CLR for .net was in vss. Maybe it wasn’t important, but bonus points if you know why.
How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
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Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#12Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel
I can't immediately see why explorer.exe wouldn't run and give you a start menu
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#13Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#14The first release of git was in 2005, around a decade after Windows 95.
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#15moving changes from Windows 95 to Windows NT involved manually doing three-way merges for all of the files that changed since the last drop. I suspect that this manual process was largely automated, but it was not as simple as a git merge. The first release of git was in 2005, around a decade after Windows 95.
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#16moving changes from Windows 95 to Windows NT involved manually doing three-way merges for all of the files that changed since the last drop. I suspect that this manual process was largely automated, but it was not as simple as a git merge. The first release of git was in 2005, around a decade after Windows 95.
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#17Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#18Which makes sense, between the "if we change it we break it in some subtle way" and "we don't expose that in UI anymore so the new panel doesn't have it".
My understanding is that windows want to move to a "you can't configure much of anything, unless you use group policy and then you set everything through that" so they don't update the settings and don't include them in the new screens for 90% of the things, but then they have this huge moat of non active directory users who need to go into the settings and my god are they bad.
Re: How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
#19Really wish someone would just take the win95 UI code and tell an LLM to make it work on the win11 74 bit kernel
Like I always say, the user-mode of Windows is easiest to change, that's why it has been done almost every version.