The Redmond giant made the control panel gradually lose its importance. With the advent of Windows 11, this trend has become even clearer, and everything indicates that with the next update this operating system will receive this reality will become more and morebecause the number of redirects from Control Panel to Settings will increase.

What does it mean? Well, it is very simple that the weight of the control panel will be less and less and that many of the functions that we could perform through it will now be performed in the Configuration application. While Microsoft knows it’s not a good idea to kill Control Panel outright just yet, we can see that it’s gradually achieving that goal, and it’s clear that it’s only a matter of time before we finally see his disappearance.

The Settings application has undergone significant development in Windows 11. It uses the WinUI interface and is now fully prepared for future design changes. In case you still have any doubts, trusted sources have confirmed what we told you in the previous paragraph that Microsoft’s long-term goal is migrate the entire Control Panel to the Settings app.

It may seem simple to us, but in reality it is more complicated than it seems, because it is not a simple aesthetic change, it also has important functional consequences. For example, until recently cannot remove all Win32 applications From the Settings app, we could only do this from the Control Panel, but that recently changed with an update, and now we can also directly delete dependent apps like Steam.

The future of Microsoft’s operating system is quite clear. Thanks to Windows 11, we have all the keys on the table that we can expect at the design level in the coming years, and we are also aware of some of the most important changes that Microsoft will make at the interface level. On the other hand, the most important leaks that have appeared in recent weeks have clearly indicated that the Redmond company is working on Windows 12, which suggests that the operating system as a service model will pass away, at least in the “pure” form that it seemed to Microsoft chose with Windows 10.