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Is the Save Button Obsolete?

Posted by Cliff on from the do-you-do-regular-system-backups-too dept.

Luther Blissett asks: "I've wondered this for awhile now: why do we still have a Save button? Why isn't it always automatic? Why isn't 'Save As' called 'Name and File'? I understand that in ancient history, when Save was a hit on system resources (e.g. when saving to your 5.25 inch floppy disk), we might give control to the user. Also, the average user then was probably more technically adept (out of necessity) and knew the difference between RAM and storage. But now? Why?"

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  1. Obselete? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it obselete? No. As long as Microsoft Winblows continues to BSOD and kill users' work, we'll always need a save button. Until users switch to a stable OS (Linux or Mac), the save button will be necessary.