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Suyash Sambhare
Suyash Sambhare

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Windows 11 UI/UX fun

Windows Tooltips

Explorer Tooltips for menu items in Windows 11 are quite peppy!
Here's an example!

Explorer Tooltips
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There is, as a matter of fact, no standardization of tooltips format or rendering!

Here are 6 different types of tooltips in Windows 11

Tooltips

Outlook

Outlook Web Client has fewer features than the Classic #Outlook

  1. No quick access toolbar
  2. Opening .ics files doesn't pop up the calendar import in Outlook. You have to open the Calendar tab in Outlook to see the import wizard
  3. Can't remove Copilot
  4. Can't minimize to tray
  5. No standardized toolbar

Outlook

Microsoft Office

New, Open, Save - three completely different tooltips!

Excel

Share

The 4 ways to share a file in 4 separate context-menu options.

  • Share with Skype
  • Give access to
  • Share
  • Send to > Mail recipient

Share

Maybe the next @Windows update can consolidate it into a single place?

Calendar

4 ways of highlighting dates in the Windows calendar

Calendar

URLs

Three different URLs for the same click..

URLs

Charmap

We really should have had a new Charmap app for #Windows11 by now, it's long overdue!

Charmap

Drivers

Amazing! Intel SPI is running drivers from 1968 and Microsoft is signing them for Windows11

Intel Drivers

Taskmanager

This insane CPU time!

CPU

Windows 3.1 in Windows 11

And there you have it! 33 years after its initial release, a #Windows 3.1 era dialog box still exists in #Window11

Windows 3.1

Still has this old HTML Help control as part of ODBC data sources
Html Help

I'm so happy to see that we have moricons.dll still present in #Windows11 after all these years! Complete with its original icons and all and the original dialog box to select icons.

Moricons

Here's how old school tool tips used to be in Windows 3.1
Old Tooltips

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