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What proportion of Windows users actually deal with file paths on a regular basis?
by jdietrich 11y ago
What proportion of Windows users actually deal with file paths on a regular basis?
- monochromatic 11y agoOut of people young enough to have missed everything prior to Windows 95, I'd bet that easily 90% have never typed a file path.
- jack9 11y agoAlmost every single working person who deals with URLs or buys things online...or uses facebook has typed a file path styled URL.
- jasonjei 11y agoGreat point. I think cross-platform developers have had enough special macro code for Windows path handling and parsing ;)
- jbergens 11y agoA lot of users open Explorer and looks at the path or copies the path. Nowdays the path is shown with arrows instead of slashes but when you klick on it to edit or copy it will use backslashes. This means a lot of users might have seen them and used them. Even 10% of 1B users is till 100 million users.
- jbergens 11y agoAnother problem is all Windows applications that don't handle forward slashes well. To make minimal inpact on the users all those applications would have to be updated. That will probably never happen.