>>281798795
Well yeah, if you take it seriously
The point is that it's mangaka gagshit humor, more people need to acknowledge that these characters act the way they do because of a real-world person, e.g. they're not literally real people

>>106289779
>XP control panel (*.CPL) files
Of course you'd be paying attention to these specific applets - XP's control panel inherited the Web View from ME (which in turn was probably inspired by Neptune's idea of web-based UI, like the ill-fated Activity Centers) and made it default, although it still had the good ol' classic view.
Had an XP SP3 (maybe it's different in the RTM release?) VM ready, unpacked contents of the .cpls in System32 with 7-Zip: only 2 of those built-in applets are proven to be HTA-based in plain sight: appwiz and nusrmgr (fun fact: the applet was initially developed for the Neptune project). Regardless, not related to the DirectUI framework used.
Not that any of that would matter after the Explorer (and thus control panel) rewrite in Vista, as all these integrated control panel applets are basically shell folder-based: rendered by DirectUI-based explorer. None of that HTA bullshit.
>not to mention how MS tries to move all of the settings to the Immersive Settings app, anyways.

Amazed? Rather disappointed. If that's all the evidence you've got of "every version of Windows since XP has written large parts of its UI in actual, textual, interpreted JavaScript.", then the argument seems poor.

>>106235429
>microsoft can at any point auto update your PC with an update that locks you out of your computer and encrypts your data without giving you the password if they consider you an enemy of the united states government?
I wouldn't know, Alyosha. My name doesn't figure in the US sanctions list.

What the fuck is an "AI-powered" laptop supposed to do