The Format drive dialog box was only supposed to be temporary in Windows NT. A software developer has recounted how it came to be nearly 30 years ago.
On a Thursday morning nearly 30 years ago at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, a software developer checked-in some code for a dialog box he was working on. The box was only supposed to be temporary, so he didn’t worry that it was very basic. Except, nobody ever got around to changing it — and it’s still the same to this day in Windows 11.
” Plummer then created a basic UI that he added to the Windows NT codebase as a temporary solution “until the elegant UI arrived.” That UI improvement never came, and nearly 30 years later, Plummer’s temporary solution is still in use in Windows 11 today. If you’re wondering why the format size of a FAT volume in Windows is limited to just 32GB, this might have been partly down to Plummer, too.
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