Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10
What's completely inexplicable is why it took 23 years to do this.
Consider this:<p>(1) It's self-contained piece of UI code. It's not like this change will permeate effects throughout the OS.<p>(2) It's a few man days of work. Let's say that as a super-exaggerated-extreme estimate, it is still only a few months of work.<p>(3) Nobody was dependent on the current behavior.<p>(4) Everybody hated the current behavior. Programmers jumped through hoops like copying&pasting the strings into an editor, making a change, and pasting it back.<p>(5) They had at least 23 years to fix it (since at least Windows 3.1).<p>There are more plausible explanations about MH370 than there are about Microsoft's thinking here.