Computer people are great at coming up with clever quips and phrases. One of Paul Kimmel's favorites is the term "syntactic sugar" meaning something that, like sweets, isn't necessary, but tastes good. That's what the My feature is -- syntactic sugar. The difference between the sugary gooey foods you might eat and the My feature is that My is better for you.
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Informative article. I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).
I did a lot of work in VB and loved how quickly one could create programs. I also hated it in certain regards (any VB programmer will know why).
VB.NET provides a great mix. best of both worlds - rapid application development while having maintainable, expandable OOP code.
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I always felt it made things more childish. Especially in a business setting it didn't give me the idea of Windows being a serious OS.
Reminds me of a couple of kids going "Mine! Mine!" fighting over toys.
Same here.
The "My" stuff is dropped in Vista, last time I checked. "Documents", "Pictures" instead of "My documents", etc.
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I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).
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Really? I always found it needlessly condescending towards the user. As if the OS was talking for the person using the computer. Makes me feel like I'm co-opted.
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Informative article. I always liked the whole "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Music" etc in Windows. It makes things more personal(?).
Totally agree. It serves as a really useful, common point of reference...especially when remote assisting a user.
It's easy to get peeps to gravitate to it.
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