[Already__Taken]

Windows needed to kill the legacy control panel for a long time. They've put some new (worse)) front ends to it over time but once you click down to it there's some ancient non-resizable textarea to read something important in.

They should rebuild it in something powershell can poke so every single windows setting can be done from the command line, slap a gui on top of that and manage it all with DSC. Much like how all the new server orientated features have gone.

[cm2187]

I agree on powershell. But I am less enthusiastic about their "metro" style which look extremely oversimplified from the samples I have seen (and all full screen, which replaces the frustration of the non-resizable grey boxes with another!).

[Already__Taken]

UI aside I am referring to applications like the new server manager that are literally a front end to PS cmdlets.

Full screen only metro is gone as of W10 it seems. It's just a flatter art style and I think the metro stuff something else again, it's not some powershell driving layer.