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Microsoft Kills “My” Folders

Posted on June 1, 2005 by Mike

This isn’t really a major source for this, but I trust this guy…plus with a name like Hell Yeah Bitch! .com, who’s going to assume we have journalist integrity anyway?

According to Preston Gralla, Microsoft will kill the “my folders”

At long last, Microsoft has announced it will finally get rid of those annoying “My” names it tacks in front of folders. When Longhorn hits, there will be no folders named My Documents, My Pictures and so on. Instead, they’ll just be labeled Documents, Pictures, etc.
Finally! I’ve found those “My” folders nearly as annoying as the animated Search dog that crawls out from its kennel when you do an XP search, or the moronic “Clippy” paper clip that pops up when you ask for help in Office. In fact, there’s only one virtual being more annoying than Clippy — the universally reviled Jar Jar Binks. And George Lucas has managed to essentially make him vanish in the latest Star Wars pic.

Microsoft always tries to be too “cute-sy”. They think that giving a crappy search feature a cartoon dog will allow non-techies to use it better, but they really just need to make a better search.

Is anyone going to miss the My Folders? For that matter, does anyone actually use and like Clippy?

  • Anonymous

    death to microsoft

  • danielcole

    Incase someone doesn’t read all the comments on every slashdot story, Tim Browse had an interesting thing to say:
    “All the spaces in default folders are (were) Microsoft’s way of forcing app developers to cope with spaces in filenames.
    Quite an elegant way of doing it, imho.”

    Now, here’s how little I remember of the bad old days (pre-mac-mini): Did the ‘My’ revolution and long filenames start at the same time? If they did then Tim’s right – fairly elegant of MS to force us to use long filenames.

  • Anonymous

    death to microsoft

  • danielcole

    Incase someone doesn’t read all the comments on every slashdot story, Tim Browse had an interesting thing to say:
    “All the spaces in default folders are (were) Microsoft’s way of forcing app developers to cope with spaces in filenames.
    Quite an elegant way of doing it, imho.”

    Now, here’s how little I remember of the bad old days (pre-mac-mini): Did the ‘My’ revolution and long filenames start at the same time? If they did then Tim’s right – fairly elegant of MS to force us to use long filenames.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    hmmm, that is interesting…I’m not sure when the long filenames started. Hell when did the “My Folders” start? 98, 2k, XP?

    If he is right, then I take back some of the things that I have said about Microsoft.

  • http://hellyeahbitch.com Mike

    hmmm, that is interesting…I’m not sure when the long filenames started. Hell when did the “My Folders” start? 98, 2k, XP?

    If he is right, then I take back some of the things that I have said about Microsoft.

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