As the other comment here notes, shell extensions have been around for a long time, and have never been a problem on older versions of Windows running on hardware that's much slower than what's available today.
(e) added the bit about the loading text.
The amount of bloat in modern software is simply obscene.
Right clicks on my MacBook are perceptually instantaneous.
Windows 10 Explorer was a perfect vehicle then they had to go and throw a shitty wrap and other afternarket trash on it.
Edit: nevermind the times you have to manually hit F5 so the file you just renamed displays the new name, instead of auto-refreshing. What the sweet hell did they do?
Resources ... Okay. What truly comes as a shock is the fact that Microsoft says they don't have expertise to continue this project. I mean, who is building Windows then? It's the same building blocks, no?!
Given the latest layoff rounds there is also good chance that indeed they fired the people who had the expertise on this.
Armies of H1Bs frantically copying and pasting from Stack Overflow until something compiles.
I am personally a huge fan of win32. I was even a ReactOS contributor at one point because of this. That being said, it wasn’t scalable without major changes. Thankfully most win32 apps still work on Windows.
You guys really should gift some kudos to Microsoft. As crappy as they can be, they often open source stuff.
Also, TIL that this apparently been open sourced for years.
nashashmi•5h ago