When I used Windows for a month because you people paid me to do so, the utter lack of consistency in the way applications and the operating system itself looks, feels, and behaves was a major sticking point. It turns out, though, that I was only scratching the surface of just how bad things really are on Windows. Case in point: the new WinUI Notepad application that replaced the classic Win32 one. I had no idea just how bad it really is.
It’s been seven weeks since I last complained about something in Windows on this blog. That feels like too long, so here’s a post about menus – specifically, the menu bar in the modern version of Notepad in Windows 11.
That menu bar has, unfortunately, quite a few regressions compared to the menu bar in the old Win32 version of Notepad.
↫ Reupen Shah
I’m not going to spoil any of it, because there’s no way you’d believe any of it without the videos Shah provides. I’m aghast.
During Microsoft’s UWP phase, IBM CUA standards for cut (Shift+Del), copy (Ctrl+Ins) and paste (Shift+Ins) were absent or intentionaly removed. Only Control+C,V,X was working.
With keyboard changing shapes, they might not care much about this older compliance (the F10 key) anymore.
Edit: previously commented on wrong post.