The infamous Windows disk formatting dialog has stuck around unchanged since 1994
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The "Temporary" disk formatting UI dialog in Windows was created in 1994 by former Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer as a quick solution until a more elegant UI arrived. It never did.
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Plummer laid out the formatting options on paper first, then coded up a basic vertical stack of options in Visual C++ 2.0.
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The dialog survives today from the Windows NT codebase, which Windows 2000 and XP adopted.
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The 32GB limit for FAT volumes in the dialog was an arbitrary decision by Plummer that we still live with.
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Plummer worked on other parts of MS-DOS and early Windows like Task Manager, Space Cadet Pinball game, and the Windows XP product activation system.