Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Christof Wollenhaupt wrote:
>
>> Guess, the legal department got involved and pointed out that using
>> "My
>> Computer" ("my" as in "the user's") clearly contradicts the Windows
>> EULA.
>> Changing that to "Our Computer" or "Microsoft's Computer" would have
>> been
>> too obvious for most users, though. <bg>
>
>
> lqtm!
>
> (laughing quietly to myself. I never LOL at email!)
>
> I wonder how many more versions of Windows it will take for them to
> finally drop the backslash separator. Yeah, I know you *can* use
> forward slashes, but nearly everything you encounter uses backslashes,
> which screws up anything that uses standard text notation.
You can't use forward slashes everywhere. Directory completion in the
terminal doesn't work with them, at least not as of Windows XP.
The silly "My" thing, I'm convinced, came about simply to show that yes,
Windows can now do spaces in filenames, and filenames longer than 8
characters. The rest of the computer world was like, wow, finally! But
Microsoft's idea was to put spaces and long directory names everywhere,
because now they could. This exemplifies the lack of vision I mentioned
in a different thread yesterday.
I remember that day in 1996 when Windows 95 was finally released. Apple
Computer took out a whole page ad in the San Jose Mercury News which was
entirely blank[1] except in the center, on the fold, where it said in
monotype font:
>c:\ngrtltns.w95
I still think that is one of the finest ads of our time.
Paul
[1] of course the Apple logo was there, in full color, too.
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