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>I read somewhere that Microsoft intends it to be mostly for new computers. They are pushing developers to it as well. See new WSL features as an example.
Can you explain how? I'm inexperienced in this field but found wsl to be a great quick way to run Linux software in Windows
I assume it will be at least as slow to load as the redesigned Calculator, and bug me to rate it Microsoft Store every now and then.
Out of curiosity I just opened up the new Calculator. It took around 150ms to load (at a guess, it was pretty much instant). How slow is it on your machine?? I've also not had it ask me to rate it on the store. I don't think it even exists on the store.
The rating thing was real at some point, they might have removed it by now.
My point is, important things are getting noticeably slower for almost zero gain, even though the machines have gotten WAY faster. Something is not right.
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> For Notepad a frustrated engineer had produced a change-set to fix all of them Hey, that was me (JeffMill). I was a dev lead for the Windows shell team at the time, and I got frustrated with notepad not getting any attention, so I spent a weekend and made the changes you describe and more, and had one of my reports code review it. I checked the changes in, and that week, some of the members of test team (remember t…
Why not releasing it as NewNotepad or something? This way it keeps the old one working but provides a newer alternative. Like Paint and 3DPaint or whatever it is called.
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So how does the little turd that shows news and weather work?
It's not in Windows 11. That seems to be even more evidence that 11 was quite rushed for some reason. They rewrote the taskbar but didn't finish reimplementing much of the existing functionality.
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/12/08/announc...