Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes 1037
ryanjm writes "Microsoft has decided to drop the "my" prefixes for Longhorn. Instead of "My Computer," it will be just just plain simple "Computer". "
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Re:Brilliant! Simply brilliant! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:lemme get this straight... (Score:3, Informative)
Hey, don't laugh! Back in the days of Windows 95, some enterprising individuals figured out how to share files over the Internet using SMB folder sharing. I forget how it worked (probably a publicly available workgroup controller), but you would be able to see other Internet users under "Network Neighborhood". It was tons of fun browsing people's computers to see what they had available. Some people even sent quick messages to each other using shared line printers.
The practice pretty much died after all the SMB security hazards started popping up, and paved the way for the script kiddies of today.
Re:Brilliant! Simply brilliant! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Brilliant! Simply brilliant! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:My My... (Score:3, Informative)
I call bullshit. You could get (usually free) time limited evaluation licenses, but if you purchased a regular license there was no termination date on it. Hence it didn't "lapse".
You could check this by looking at the license with the LICENSE utility ($ LIC LIST/FULL <license name>). Look for the line with "termination date", like this:
PAK Termination Date: (none)
That's not to say that proprietary software and restrictive licenses don't suck big hairy toads.
Re:More often than that (Score:5, Informative)
Windows 3.1 didn't have a default "My Documents" folder type of thing.
Windows 95, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows 98, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows ME, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows NT 4, c:\winnt\profiles\username\My Documents if I remember right, not sure. Home directory would be one level above.
Windows 2000, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above.
Windows XP, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above.
Now, how long as OSX been out? Since 2001 was it? Wouldn't that mean it isn't as old as Windows 2000? Gee, that'd make it where as long as OSX has been out, the My Docs directory under Windows has been the same, shouldn't it?
Look, if you are going to troll Windows subjects, at least get it right...
Re:Or not... (Score:2, Informative)
Tab completion e.g. c:\d [tab] \u [tab] \m [tab] \m [tab] \b [tab]
YMMV depending on how many directories / files start with the same characters - sometimes it's quicker to type in a few characters before hitting the tab key. Other shells offer more advanced completion.
Re:Who wanna bet... (Score:3, Informative)
On Mac OS special folders could be named anything and be anywhere (futeure-proofing and localisation-safe). Applications just tell the OS that something needs to go into whichever special folder it needs to go in. So it's not impossible to create an elegant solution, just not possible for Microsoft to do it.
Windows can do this, too. Applications are supposed to use the SHGetSpecialFolderpath() API to get the localization-friendly, drive-letter-independent path to special folders like "My Documents". Of course, many apps don't bother. Plus Microsoft can't implement this correctly, so you can only call SHGetSpecialFolderpath() if IE4 or greater is installed, BUT if you are running on Windows 2000, SHGetSpecialFolderpath() is superceded by the the SHGetFolderPath() API.
This is going to break a lot of batch scripts... (Score:2, Informative)
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