A Decade Later, Windows Is Still Bringing Control Panel Features To The Settings App

I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014:

Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel pinch a elemental UI complete nan years, alternatively than a database of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t beryllium successful nan caller PC Settings app. “Why do I person to spell nan PC settings to hide a web and Control sheet to alteration IP settings? Can’t this each beryllium done from a azygous place?” It’s a adjacent criticism, and 1 that Microsoft should look to reside pinch Windows 10.

But nan Control Panel still can’t die. The latest features to migrate, arsenic of today’s Technical Preview: timepiece settings; clip servers; formatting for time, number, and currency; UTF-8 connection support toggle, keyboard characteristic repetition delay, and cursor blink rate. You tin besides spot mobile app notifications (not conscionable texts and calls and photos) successful nan comparatively precocious added Phone Link conception of nan Start Menu.