Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, August 23rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft deprecating a feature that it launched back in 1985. There's a pretty big loophole that is still

letting China use H100 chips, the weird saga evolving over at Bolt, and of course the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech.

Microsoft is confirming that the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0,

is in the process of being deprecated in favor of the settings app.

Quoting Neo-Winn.

Similar to Paint 3D, which Microsoft had seemingly hoped to kill off sooner,

the Windows Control Panel is a feature that the Tech Giant has been wanting to

deprecate for a while. The first such reports started surfacing back in 2011 when a leaked

Windows 8 screenshot suggested that Microsoft was looking to replace the control panel with

PC settings. This settings option was made with touch friendliness in mind

though the control panel continued to coexist still.

Later in 2015 it was rumored that the company may finally do away with it as a senior Microsoft

official confirmed that settings will eventually supersede control panel.

However, the application continued to persist still as some of the things had not been moved over.

Although that was said by a Microsoft employee nearly a decade ago,

the company itself never published anything such on its official site until just a few days ago.

On a new support page about the various native Windows configuration tools that have been covered

in detail in this dedicated article, Microsoft has finally stated that the control panel is, quote, in the process of being deprecated in favor of the settings app, end quote. Reuters has seen documents suggesting that state-linked Chinese entities are using

cloud services from AWS or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and AI models they cannot otherwise

acquire. Which, yeah, kind of defeats the purpose of a tech ban, right?

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