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Chrome book is indeed a real killer product, not just for schools but for average home users as well. Microsoft used to have a Briefcase icon on desktops for o
by webwanderings 9y ago
Chrome book is indeed a real killer product, not just for schools but for average home users as well.
Microsoft used to have a Briefcase icon on desktops for offline file syncing. It used to work for those who used it effectively (it was under used of course). But yes, Dropbox went further than anyone else.
- dhimes 9y agoYes I loved the convenience that the briefcase introduced.
- bitwize 9y agoI remember Microsoft Briefcase. It was one of the new, exciting features you could only get with Windows 95! Yes, woefully underused. But in those days networked storage was difficult to set up and removable media meant ZIP drives. Today we have The Cloud™, aka PFM that just works.
- beagle3 9y agoIt was buggy as hell, I've known quite a few people who lost hours of work to it.
- ashark 9y agoWhen I was a kid and first learning to use a computer, I thought the briefcase was just like a fancy folder where you should put your important stuff. So I put all my docs and bitmaps I drew in MSPaint and midi files of songs from movies and Dark Forces levels in there. Months later, everything in there just... disappeared. Gone one day. For reasons that still aren't entirely clear to me. Never (mis)used it again, haha. Aaaaand this is why non-tech people are terrified that their computers will bite them.