Mate, thank you! I always forget the name of the website, but regularly go down a deep rabbit hole looking at how things were, whether I remember a detail right or not, and how were the other platforms at the time. It’s a great resource, I hope you can keep it running for a very long time.
Well done. To improve on it you should add screenshots of the internal dialogs. I'm always pissed off by those non resizable windows that never changed since 20+ years ago. They were large enough back then but they require a magnifying lens on our screens now. And not being able to read all the content of text input boxes because they are too narrow? It's a common problem in many MicroSoft programs. The inner dialogs of Task Scheduler are the ones I'm running into more often.
As a side note somehow (and as I see it) "evolution" has a positive connotation, i.e. an evolution step brings something that is seen as "better", and unfortunately, in the case of Windows Control Panel, this is very hard to state.
By reading the title only I had the at first sight impression of the article being some form of MS fanboysm.
Something like "How the Windows Control Panel design changed over 36 years" would IMHO be more neutral.
That's an interesting viewpoint, thanks for this. I hadn't thought of it that way but I guess I can understand that angle. To your point, the HTML title of the page is "36 Years of Microsoft Windows Control Panels Design History" which is what shows up as the title/first line in Google searches.
