From a non-technical perspective, putting a "shell" over the existing User Interface does not seem that difficult.I have recently read about some companies which are able to make Windows 11 look like older versions such as 95 and so on.
My questions are:
How do they actually do this from a tech perspective?
How are they allowed to do this, isn't the proprietary software on pre-built machines set?
How does this overlay, or whatever the best word is, work with the built-in security system and/or third party antimalware? Or would the security installed also include looking at this overlay software in any scans?
Hoping some tech people can explain this better. Looks like it would be fun to play with.
Every so often Microsoft does a truly horrible change to the User Interface - the awful original Windows 8. (Apparently the guy who drove through that insistence on a more phone-like interface, a British software engineer, got fired over it?). They refuse(d) to understand that if you have say 1 billion people invested in the tacit knowledge to use a particular UI, if you change it, you force 1 billion people to invest their time & energy learning a new approach. (Dynamic arrays in Excel is a current bête noire of mine).
But what would drive a company/ user to go back before the Win 7 User Interface?
I mean, OK, Windows NT was probably the best Windows (?) -- if we want to brand ourselves as Troglodytes
. But still.Statistics: Posted by Valuethinker — Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:17 am — Replies 3 — Views 396