Wow, this brings back memories. I went to install a font in Windows XP today and saw a relic from the past: the Windows 3.1 file dialog. This is in Microsoft’s own code. To see it, open the fonts directory and choose “install new font” from the edit menu. It’s funny to see this kind of thing in XP; clearly it’s holdover code from eleven+ years ago.
I wonder if this still exists in Windows Vista.
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November 6th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Rumor has it that yes, Vista has that dialog too!
November 21st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Yup!
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November 28th, 2006 at 6:29 am
Well, really. From 95, 98, ME through NT, 2K, XP this old-fashioned font dialog survived. I think there are clear reasons for that…
However, I’m used to look at Win3.1 dialogs quite more often…
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