I'm actually glad that they are changing it. It was never really good to begin with, besides the fact that it was smaller. Removing legacy stuff is necessary.
doesn't this give more control than the old one? and who cares about breaking user habits in this situation anyway, it's not like it's counter-intuitive or something that changes it so much that users don't understand what to do.No! It is a vote to stop breaking user habits, and potentially dropping user control. In other words their change often dumbs-down the interface.calling it "change for change's sake" is simply another vote for "don't change anything...I likes it the way it WAAAAASSSS!."
Having control is necessary. The age and design not so much. The age and design falls more under unnecessary cosmetics. The shift to touch is the only thing making all these changes necessary. And I don't know of anyone who really wants touch on a desktop PC. Therefor making these changes for the sake of change in a desktop system.Removing legacy stuff is necessary.
I was speaking in general, this change is not so damning.doesn't this give more control than the old one?
If they can't scale correctly in 100 steps, adding another 200 steps will not help.It needs to go to 1-300. its always to low or too high. & the volume changes itself alot...
Trust me when I say this, but audio drivers are the most crappy drivers in the world, with printer drivers being the 2nd worst drivers ever. They're written so badly that even simple updates break them.I think Microsoft need to stop messing with things like this because it causes more harm than good. It's like they get an idea and implement it, send it out and trash a bunch of peoples setups. After 17134 update my sound settings are mangled (main problem being no audio from stereo mix). I spent hours messing with drivers and got nowhere. The whole 2 ways (or more) of doing everything is a mess. The whole settings thing is a mess. If you want to do anything in Windows you have to ask can I find that in settings or shall I look in control panel.
Yeah gotcha mate.When I say that they're trying to emulate apple I mean in looks, I'm not sure the functionality is so much a concern as is making it appear more modern. The Skype For Business program is a great example of how little they understand (modernized look with reduced functionality). SFB is just a reskinned Lync that they somehow made worse.