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I'm no coder or programmer, but I'm thinking its a lot easier to move the settings in Control Panel to Settings, than it would be to redo all the Settings in the Modern UI to work in control panel. Especially if your goal is uniformity across the OS. I'll likely get flamed for this but, give up already. No amount of bitching and complaining is going to make Microsoft about face now and make Windows 10 the new Windows 7. It ain't going to happen. I'm not trying to be a smart ass just stating the facts. They are not going back now. If they had waited another year to release Windows 10 we likely wouldn't be having this conversation at all. It would have been done before release. Take it or leave it.
So,, why wouldn't they?? Win7 is not going to be support beyond 5 years and they're focusing in on 10 from now on. It would make sense for business to migrate over to 10. I doubt they'll do it all at one time but it's going to happen.
And as a coder/programmer with a ton of experience I agree with(@alphanumeric).. having all of the code in one place will make maintenance easy and since they merging all of the platforms that would really be a good idea.
Jeff
Hahaha yourself. Some will, some won't, some already have. All depends on their legacy apps and whether they will run in 10 or not. I do believe those with a software assurance contract get a free upgrade anyway. Windows 10 can be an advantage if your using multiple devices. No having to learn 2 or 3 different interfaces. Your phone looks like your tablet looks like your desktop.
Why would anyone want this?
A tablet is one device, a phone is another, a desktop is another.
They don't need the same interface since they do different things.
5 years is a lot of time. In 5 years, Windows 7 wont be supported any longer, but neither will Windows 10 (mainstream support). Who knows what will happen then? Maybe we'll have Windows 11 or 10.1 or whatever that is actually worthwhile to businesses and educational institutions.
Some people buy a smart phone so they can do more than just make phone calls. Or a tablet to do more than just watch YouTube videos. Why have a completely different UI just because they are different devices?