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Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes
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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Can't wait what they'll come up with next!
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
How will I know whose files they are?
And in the next release, they'll replace it with "Our".
--MarkusQ
In this DRM age, we wouldn't want consumers to belive they own anything. now CONSUME!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Apple picked up the prefix at auction on the cheap, along with the now much-maligned 'e' prefix and several other vowels.
Later, at a press conference, Steve Jobs announced the new, updated G5 eMy eioMac. Old MacDonald could not be reached for comment.
That green slime had it coming.
How will I know whose files they are?
With patentened Weak Windows Security (tm), they are EVERYONES files!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
FINALLY, after all these years, real change!
Helpdesk: Double click on "My Computer"
User: I can't see your computer.
Helpdesk: No, double click on "My Computer" on your computer.
User: Huh?
Helpdesk: There is an icon on your computer labled "My Computer". Double click on it.
User: What's your computer doing on mine?
Such arrogance, Bill!
Ohhhh, I get it, built in P2P folders for "Pictures" , "Videos" and "Music". Now it all makes sense. And with industry-leading Microsoft security. (I didn't say WHAT industry... haw haw!)
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
This follows Microsoft's new basic assertion that the computer and all its data belongs to Microsoft in the first place, therefore calling it "My Computer" is technically (and possibly legally) incorrect.
They were going to call it "Our Computer", but decided against it on the grounds that users might think they were sharing something, and didn't want there to be any confusion. Microsoft doesn't share anything.
(For the humorless: This is a joke. But it's funny because you know how close to the truth it is. Or maybe it's scary for the same reason.)
Or at least it would have been funny if it wasn't what basically every other comment to this article said
It would be nice if microsoft removed "My Patent" and "My Annoyance" and "My hair-tearing headache."
It would also be nice if they added "My Compiler" to the default install of the OS.
I can dream.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
,.- ..thank god they didn't replace 'My' with 'Meesa'..
-.,
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
Taking away "My" is kinda like when they find something vibrating in your luggage...
Narrator: Was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick.
Narrator: Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police.
Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
[whispering]
Airport Security Officer: it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.
Narrator: I don't own...
Not "My" computer, but "The" computer...
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
A neat little trick you can do on other people's computers is to make a shortcut of "My Computer" and label it "Your Computer". Put the shortcut next to "My Computer".
All those juries will let child pornographers off now - "But your honor, the pictures weren't in 'My Pictures'".
Once again, MS is undermining justice in this country...
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
"Mein Comp..."
Just close enough to "Kampf", I suspect...
Only on Slashdot would you find 300 comments examining the big picture significance of 'My' Computer.
"Derp de derp."
If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were still alive, and if Costello tried to buy a computer from Abbott: http://xynext.com/Abbot-Costello-Whos-on-First-Com puter-Joke/
It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
Tomorrow's headline: "Revolutionary 'My' Removal Has Been Cut" Microsoft Chief Muckety Muck released a statement today saying that the planned removal of the My prefix has had to be cut from Longhorn in order to meet the new expected ship date of 2008. The day after tomorrow's headling: "Microsoft to back port the revolutionary My prefix removal to Windows XP" Ending speculation that Microsoft will be unable to drop the My prefix, muckety mucks at the software giant today announced plans to back port the My prefix removal to Windows XP. No date for this feature has yet been announced. Geez, Mac OS X has had the My prefix removed for *years* now.
it isn't really MY computer anymore, now is it?
If they're from Kansas, they become intelligently designed to transcend the keyboard.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
So now you'll have four of them:
;-))
* Moje dokumenty
* Dokumenty
* My Documents
* Documents
in soviet redmond, documents own you!!!
Get your torrents...
I do admit I'm not using a commercial VMS license though.
Well, about if you have a nice can of STFU then!
I want to kill the man who decided that applications should go in "Program Files". I hate typing that out, especially when tab-completion is not available. In general, I hate long-ass multiword folder names. Keep it short and simple, or I'll put my boot up your ass. Hmmm, "My Bootupyourass". Yes, that definitely has potential. *runs off trademark it*
"The newly born animals are then whisked off for a quick run through a giant baking oven." --heard on Food Network
But I enjoyed typing "c:/documents and settings/matthew surname/my documents/". it's so much easier than /home/matt
To all you out there who constantly accuse Microsoft of not being innovators, can I say a big "Hah!".
So there!
Will they now simply be known as Crosoft now, by the way?
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