Month: March 2024

“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11

“It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.” It never did.

If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box.

Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

Windows 11 has done a lot to update and modernize long-neglected parts of Windows' user interface, including many Settings menus and venerable apps like Notepad and Paint. But if you dig deep enough, you'll still find parts of the user interface that look and work like they did in the mid-'90s, either for compatibility reasons or because no one ever thought to go back and update them.

Former Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer shared some history about one of those finely aged bits: the Format dialogue box, which is still used in fully updated Windows 11 installs to this day when you format a disk using Windows Explorer.

Plummer says he wrote the Format dialog in late 1994, when the team was busy porting the user interface from the consumer-focused Windows 95 (released in mid-1995) to the more-stable but more resource-intensive Windows NT (NT 4.0, released in mid-1996, was the first to use the 95-style UI).

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Mobilfunk: Ericsson entlässt 1.200 Beschäftigte

Die Netzbetreiber kaufen zu wenig 5G-Ausrüstung. Ericsson will deswegen mal wieder entlassen. Insgesamt ist der Stellenabbau wohl weitaus größer. (Ericsson, Mobilfunk)

Die Netzbetreiber kaufen zu wenig 5G-Ausrüstung. Ericsson will deswegen mal wieder entlassen. Insgesamt ist der Stellenabbau wohl weitaus größer. (Ericsson, Mobilfunk)

Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects

Tech giants must defend against EU’s “concrete evidence” of non-compliance.

EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). (credit: Thierry Monasse / Contributor | Getty Images News)

Not even three weeks after the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect, the European Commission (EC) announced Monday that it is already probing three out of six gatekeepers—Apple, Google, and Meta—for suspected non-compliance.

Apple will need to prove that changes to its app store and existing user options to swap out default settings easily are sufficient to comply with the DMA.

Similarly, Google's app store rules will be probed, as well as any potentially shady practices unfairly preferencing its own services—like Google Shopping and Hotels—in search results.

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Trends Spielebranche: “Diablo 4 war pünktlich!”

Neue Arbeitsmethoden bei Blizzard und anderen Studios, generative KI und Hardware für die Hand: Golem.de stellt Trends der Spielebranche vor. Von Peter Steinlechner (GDC 2024, Steam)

Neue Arbeitsmethoden bei Blizzard und anderen Studios, generative KI und Hardware für die Hand: Golem.de stellt Trends der Spielebranche vor. Von Peter Steinlechner (GDC 2024, Steam)

Orange Pi Neo Linux handheld gaming PC to sell for $499 and up

The Orange Pi Neo is an upcoming handheld gaming PC with some of the features we’ve come to expect in this space. It has a 7 inch FHD+ display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and it will be available with a choice of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or Ryzen 7 8840…

The Orange Pi Neo is an upcoming handheld gaming PC with some of the features we’ve come to expect in this space. It has a 7 inch FHD+ display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and it will be available with a choice of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or Ryzen 7 8840U processor options. But it’s […]

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Zeitreisen mit Kaijus: Zurück in die Zukunft war ein großer Einfluss für Godzilla

Einfluss und Inspiration kann man überall finden, so auch bei einem megaerfolgreichen Zeitreisefilm. Zurück in die Zukunft inspirierte die Godzilla-Macher. (Zurück in die Zukunft, Film)

Einfluss und Inspiration kann man überall finden, so auch bei einem megaerfolgreichen Zeitreisefilm. Zurück in die Zukunft inspirierte die Godzilla-Macher. (Zurück in die Zukunft, Film)