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Right. And a fun fact for readers, it's technically Windows "Me" (title case) and advertising has it read as "me" as in me the person, not "M.E." as Millenium E
by accrual 2y ago
Right. And a fun fact for readers, it's technically Windows "Me" (title case) and advertising has it read as "me" as in me the person, not "M.E." as Millenium Edition.
Kind of interesting history there - "Me" was intended to show the PC was becoming more personal. I think WinMe added some new "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc. that came with Win2k and later XP which helped drive the personal aspect. Then later "XP" was meant to be "eXPerience" as in a new PC experience. Microsoft was a bit more fun back then.
- estebank 2y agoPart of the thinking behind the "My *" naming for those directories was forcing applications to handle spaces in paths properly.
- tracker1 2y agoThat was definitely part of it... as XP SPs released, they locked down application access to read/write where applications typically shouldn't, including in their own Program Files directory, and this did bork some applications even though it was supposed to redirect the changes to a different directory. So many poorly written applications broke through those days. I may be thinking of Vista/Win7 though, the time has muddled my brain a bit.