Comments on: Microsoft Kills “My” Folders

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:16:13 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:16:13 +0000

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.

By: danielcole

danielcole — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:11:57 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 05:08:22 +0000

death to microsoft

By: danielcole

danielcole — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:11:57 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:08:22 +0000

death to microsoft