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These are hardly problems. Users don't generally encounter system directories or identifiers in IDEs, and these patterns have emerged from MS's traditional ded
by Gormo 14y ago
These are hardly problems. Users don't generally encounter system directories or identifiers in IDEs, and these patterns have emerged from MS's traditional dedication to maintaining backward compatibility, which is usually much more important to developers and power users than having directory names be completely descriptive of what's in them.
The problem with Windows RT is exactly the opposite: they've broken backward compatibility, severely, and created a product that bears no resemblance to what the vast majority of users recognize as Windows, yet they've decided to call it "Windows" anyway.
- malkia 14y agomost often, it's us developers becoming users of some other software. And real users are puzzled sometimes, there were at least couple of emails to the sqlite mailing list about missing sqlite3.dll from users. In one case it was some tax program installing it in the system32 folder, messing it up with another one (why would they do that is another matter), also as someone posted below, there is Program Files, and Program Files (x86), but there apps that do not follow that convention (internally they have their own bin32, bin64 folders), and it comes to users again - usually plugins for various creative suits - audio, video, etc.