Comments on: Goodbye to ‘My’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:19:01 +0000

Great answer!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:17:19 +0000

Would be glad to be rid of “My” but it ain’t gonna happen on my computer because this one tiny improvement could never make-up for all the DRM and other controls to be found in Longhorn.

I will stick with 98se (and wish I had went linux to begin with)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:12:46 +0000

haha, i loved this response.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:12:28 +0000

Makes sense. If DRM succeeds, it won’t be “My” computer anymore anyway!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:06:18 +0000

Which makes me wonder if Longhorn will actually acheive an intuitive filing system without having to resort to base-level labelling of directories.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:09:31 +0000

Hmm. When I first saw the “My …” convention, it felt like a condescension to clueless users. (I still feel that way when it says “You must restart your computer.” How do they know if it’s MY computer?)

But having gotten used to it, I think I will miss the convention unless it’s replaced by something equally recognizable… mainly because it lets me know that I can find the folder on disk under the current user’s profile. So even if sounds like a dumbed-down marketing ploy, it’s come to have a useful meaning, and I hope that “Documents” and “Music” are somehow marked so you can tell they’re per-user folders.