Windows 11 Legacy Code Rant

windows 11 is just like a vm running on a thin windows 10 hypervisor. too much legacy junk under the hood and a shell that's basically a website running in a borderless window. the win11 shell is just an electron app and it can’t handle vertical orientation without crashing the entire display driver. win10 taskbar being resizable in 26H1 is because it’s the only part of the os that actually respects the manifest file. win11 taskbar ignores it because it’s not even a real win32 app. microsoft developers forget to delete the old code before shipping the new one, that's what happens when you use too much of ai to write your code. microsoft claims win11 is more secure. then why does it still rely on the win10 ribbon ui binaries for file operations in 26H1? if it was a real os, they would have ported everything to rust by now. fun fact: the only reason 26H1 hasn't deleted the legacy win10 code is because the entire office 365 installer still relies on the old shell hooks to show progress bars. if they deleted the "buggy" old code, you literally couldn't install excel. the world's most "advanced" os is being held hostage by its own spreadsheet software.

A screenshot of a social media post sarcastically criticizing Windows 11 for relying on legacy Windows 10 code, Electron components, and old Office installation hooks. The punchline is that supposedly advanced software is being held hostage by outdated code, making it a fitting reaction to bloated systems, technical debt, and ironic software engineering failures.

• @gentoomemes / 20090 2026-02-15