All this is exactly why I've stopped buying PCs and use Windows. Silly inconsistencies like shell not supporting > 260 file paths (I know that some Win32 APIs a

All this is exactly why I've stopped buying PCs and use Windows. Silly inconsistencies like shell not supporting > 260 file paths (I know that some Win32 APIs and NT itself limits file paths to 32,768 or so Unicode characters), but it's all those patches, inconsistencies, limited shell (cmd.exe), drive letters which drive me crazy. With Mac OS X and Linux all that is gone, and the world seems a better place now.