US-based technology giant Microsoft Windows operating system His journey started a long time ago and has continued to evolve over the years. Today, there is a huge difference between Windows 95 and Windows 11. The company’s operating system He made changes almost everywhere. Windows 11 supports today’s most advanced technologies.
However, there is one feature that has evolved since its initial development. Even though thirty years have passed no changes have been made. That feature, which was offered to users running Windows 95, is also not available in Windows 11. unchanged is used. So what was this feature? Why did Microsoft feel the need to do something like this?
Windows’ iconic “Format” feature hasn’t changed in 30 years!

from Windows Format You know its function. This service deletes any files on external drives that you insert into your computer and makes the device ready for use again. Microsoft hasn’t touched this feature in years. Function as it was 30 years ago It still looks like this today. Why did Microsoft do such a thing? Format, why has it never changed until now?
A former Microsoft employee tells the story of Format
The person who made the statements about Windows Format is a former Microsoft employee. Dave Plummer happened. Plummer stated that he had personally worked on this tool and told Format’s story in these words:
I wrote the Format dialog at Microsoft on a rainy Thursday morning in late 1994, I think it was.
We were porting millions of lines of code from the Windows95 user interface to NT, and Format was just one of the areas where WindowsNT was so different from Windows95 that we needed a custom user interface.
I took out a piece of paper and looked up some information about formatting a drive, such as file system, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, etc. I wrote down all the options and choices you can make, such as.
I then used the Source Editor to organize a simple stack of all the choices you need to make in VC++2.0, in approximately the order you need to make them. It wasn’t elegant, but it would suffice until the elegant UI arrived.
This was almost 30 years ago and the interface is still my temporary interface from that Thursday morning, so be careful when creating “solutions”!
I also had to decide on the size limit and chose to limit the format size for the FAT volume to 32 GB. This boundary was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and it was a boundary that stuck with us as a permanent side effect…
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