The Control Panel may finally be seeing its last days as the Settings app finally takes precedence in Windows The Settings app was first introduced at the launch of Windows 8 in 2012, and since then the transition from the long-lived Control Panel to Settings has been slow

To the credit of Control Panel, the Settings controller has been reported dead for years and has yet to be removed Still, the nearly 40-year-old feature has existed in some form since 1985, when Windows 10 was introduced

However, Microsoft has never explicitly stated that the Control Panel is going away What we have seen is a 2015 tweet reported by Neowin in which a senior Microsoft official confirmed that “Settings will eventually superside Control Panel”

Although Microsoft has not officially announced that the Control Panel is going away, on its support page Microsoft states that the Control Panel “will be superseded and deprecated in favor of Settings in the Settings app, which provides a more modern and streamlined experience”

The page gives a hint to Windows users: “While the Control Panel still exists for compatibility reasons and to provide access to some settings that have not yet been migrated, we recommend using the Settings app whenever possible

Since the introduction of Settings, the Control Panel has gradually lost functionality to the new app The only reason the Control Panel still exists seems to be compatibility, which Microsoft has yet to overcome in the last 12 years

In recent years, however, Microsoft has focused on making Windows more modern and streamlined In fact, the Settings app was created more for touchscreens, even though the software giant has backed away from it

Meanwhile, the control panel still exists and is accessible It will die one day, but today is not that day

There is no timetable for when the Control Panel might finally disappear from Windows after a slow depreciation We have reached out to Microsoft for comment and will update this article as soon as we hear back

Update:

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the notes on the support page are true, but said the company has nothing else to share about the control panel and when it might disappear from Windows