It’s not just a handy, even vital, utility....it’s a metaphor for a multibillion dollar software company where the marketing tail has been wagging the dog for so long they’ve forgotten what operating systems and GUIs are supposed to be in the first place.
Microsoft claims every exasperating, inexplicable, unrequested change is an improvement. But would an actual improvement cause a developer to seek a way to preserve the old menu system? Would an actual improvement cause millions of users to unilaterally seek that which their OS provider had eliminated under the rubric of innovation?
Over the years I have dumped many software programs because they changed or eliminated the one or more features I liked in the program. Ironically, many of those same programs went defunct over time because they ignored their customers/end users.
[[Microsoft claims every exasperating, inexplicable, unrequested change is an improvement.]]
Not only that but they suggest that anyone that doesn’t like the new changes are just being difficult- claiming that ‘many users have requested the changes’
And with all these changes and "improvements" they still have been unable to come up with a simple way to print a directory listing. It's truly astounding.
Their idea of improvements, for example, is to move the "show desktop" icon which used to be on the lower left to a hidden place on the lower right. Wow! Astonishing improvement.
>>But would an actual improvement...
It might, if the associated modifications obfuscated the MicroSieveware maze enough to force dependent malware to adapt apace.