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>Avoid the "My Computer" paradigm. My Computer paradigm is long gone. They call it "This Computer" or just "Computer" now. There is no "My".
by NullPrefix 5y ago
>Avoid the "My Computer" paradigm.
My Computer paradigm is long gone. They call it "This Computer" or just "Computer" now. There is no "My".
- userbinator 5y agoI believe that started around Vista/7 and is a very telling sign of whose computer they really think it is now.
- V-2 5y agoI understand this is (probably) a tongue-in-cheek comment, but the "My" prefix was infantile and terrible for scanning the alphabetically ordered list of folders ("My Documents", "My Music", "My Whatever"), so dropping this nonsense feels like a step in the right direction. It still baffles me though how the Windows designers assumed it would be a great idea to bless me with a predefined "3D Objects" folder (right under "This PC"), which comes at the top of the list due to alphabetical ordering, and can't be removed. I wonder what percentage of users actually need this.
- robotnikman 5y agoIIRC they introduced that one around 2012, when 3D printing was taking off and was thought to be the next big thing