30 years ago, at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, developer Dave Plummer filed temporary code for the Format dialog box. It was assumed that in the future the appearance and functionality of this window would be redesigned, but no one ever got around to doing this - in Windows 11, the Format tool looks the same as in Windows NT. "We were porting millions of lines of code from the Windows 95 user interface to NT, and formatting was just one of the areas where Windows NT was so different from Windows 95 that we had to come up with our own user interface," Plummer said. “I took out a piece of paper and wrote down all the possible options for formatting the disk, such as file system, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.”
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