Windows 11: Microsoft is silent in silence this cult function of Windows 7
Windows 11 erases Device Stage: Microsoft makes a Windows 7 key function disappear in silence © Shutershock
The air of nothing, Microsoft continues to turn the page on the past. This time, it is Device Stage, a very practical function of Windows 7, which disappears from radars. No press release, no tribute. Just a good old digital spring cleaning.
Microsoft buries without a word Device Stage, the forgotten flagship function of Windows 7
No fanfare, no blog post. Just a few erases well placed in the official documentation. Device internship, this visual interface launched with Windows 7 to simplify the use of devices (printers, phones, walkers, etc.), no longer exists. Or at least, more officially.
The tool made it possible to access the specific functions and adjustments of a connected device in the blink of an eye, whether via USB, Bluetooth or WiFi. Practical, clever, a little forgotten over time. But for those who still used it – in certain companies or administrations in particular – his disappearance is not trivial.
Here is a Device Stage, if you had forgotten. © Microsoft
The observation comes from Neowin : Microsoft simply erased Device Stage from its support pages. No more mention. Even the page which once proposed solutions in the event of concern with this interface no longer refers to it. Instead? A highlighting of tools specific to Windows 10 And 11, necessarily more “in tune with the times”.
Introduced with drums and trumpets in 2009, it had been praised as a revolution in the user experience. But in the meantime, standards have changed, automation has become widespread, and above all … Windows 11 has been there. More modern, more refined (and sometimes more austere), Microsoft’s latest addition has no room for this kind of relics.
This gesture is not isolated. It is part of a vast gradual withdrawal plan of everything that recalls the Windows 7 era, a system that is always valiant in certain companies, but now left behind in Redmond’s strategy. Ironically, it is Mozilla Firefox, and not Microsoft, which continues to maintain compatibility with Windows 7, one more contrast in an increasingly polarized software world.
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