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Originally posted by Chestah
Aren't M$ also hoping that by the time longhorn comes out that widescreens are popular so that the sidebar doesn't clutter and use up all of the users screen?
Maybe
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
This happens even now, today. Look at the questions on the net and other helpdesks, IRC-channels, etc. Nowadays, if you say "download that file and open it", many people don't have a clue of what the difference is between downloading, storing something on the HD and opening it. I see this everyday when I look at peoples computers: random files everywhere, and yet they say they don't have something: "I've downloaded it, but can't find it"....
I agree. Maybe the idea of M$ is make the user think that the net and his/her HD is the same thing, where there's no diference between having a file in local or in remote.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
what is a folder? what is a file? What is a directory-structure?).
imo, in the future there won't be files and folders (at least in window OSes). The tendency is to have a place called My XXX (not porno
) where XXX is documents, music, logs, videos, images, bla bla bla... The user goes there and finds what s/he's looking for. Of course, there will be a period of time of transition, where there are both files and folders, and "places" like my XXX. (which internally are folders and files). With longhorn some files and folders will be in WinFS. I think that that is the first step to the goal of removing files and folders. It's an higer level of abstraction where there is no directory structure, tree-based; but a relationship database of information
I don't know if this will be good or not. Personally, I don't like very much the idea of having WinFS. I think it's useless. Anyway, time to time...
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Now you can say: that's something which always has happend, and we all where "noobs" once.
there's also another difference: Some people haven't ever been a n00b. (let's say) 10-15 years ago, people who bought a PC were "cleverer" than today's users and they had the required knowledge to understand what a tree-like directory structure is, for example. Nowadays, the big companies try to sell they products to everyone, to all users of all ages; so the software has to be more and more user friendly. This implies a hide of the more technical details, which every day more, are less technical.
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