Microsoft Is Finally Modernizing Windows 11's Ancient Dialog Boxes, As November Update Brings Major UI Improvements
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Windows 11 debuted five years ago. The system gained a new Start Menu and a more modern Settings panel. Unfortunately, despite the passage of time, users still encounter interface elements from the previous century. Recent reports online, however, give hope that Microsoft may do something about this in the near future. Many users jokingly call Windows 11 […] The article "They look like Windows 95. Will Microsoft finally revamp the classic Window…
Microsoft Is Finally Modernizing Windows 11's Ancient Dialog Boxes, As November Update Brings Major UI Improvements
Despite being over five years old, Windows 11 still contains numerous dialog boxes and system utilities dating back to Windows 95 and earlier. Microsoft has now reaffirmed its plans to modernize these aging interfaces, while its newly released November 2026 update is already introducing several noticeable UI improvements. As reported by Windows Latest, Marcus Ash, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Design and Research for Windows and Device…
Microsoft Hints at WinUI 3 Overhaul for Windows 11's Leftover Legacy Dialogs
Marcus Ash, Microsoft's design and research lead for Windows and Devices, has hinted that more of Windows 11's old dialogs and admin tools could get a modern makeover. Under Jen Gentleman's post about the new option to silence the Sticky Keys prompt, a user asked Microsoft to "winui-fy" the legacy Win32 dialogs and MMC apps, and to fully move Control Panel into Settings. Ash replied with a short "Noted and working on that too." He didn't give a …
Microsoft finally wants to kill Windows 11's ancient dialog boxes, and these are the ones you still see today
Microsoft’s design boss, Marcus Ash, has confirmed that his team is working on WinUI versions of Windows 11’s leftover Win32 dialogs and MMC consoles, in a reply under an X post about Sticky Keys. Microsoft has rebuilt a few of these this year, but five years after launch, Windows 11 still lets you open dozens of windows that look straight out of Windows 95 or Windows 8 (which is now 14 years old). I’ve seen people on socials joke that Windows 1…
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