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And a key feature of Windows 95 was the explorer with your home directory where you could doubleclick on files and the appropriate application would open, so us
by johannes1234321 8y ago
And a key feature of Windows 95 was the explorer with your home directory where you could doubleclick on files and the appropriate application would open, so users won't have to think about the application, but the file first.
However abstracting away from a pure file based view also has benefits, like history or having different views on the document (i.e. to share a read only version)
The main question is: How well will those things serve as lock-in in future, GDPR does a first step there by enforcing that there is a way to extract the data (not that the export format neccisarily is is really usable ...)
- int_19h 8y agoWindows was document-centric in other respects, too. For example, the standard UX guidelines defined three types of apps: dialog, single-document interface, and multi-document interface. Most apps were actually expected to be of the last two varieties, and the guidelines covered a lot of points on how it was all supposed to look. And when it came to implementation, frameworks like MFC were designed around that concept as well, with the ability to automatically handle things like multiple views into the same document.