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[–] [email protected] 168 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (38 children)

If I remember correctly, it was a regular folder with a special icon. The intention was that you could drag&drop it to some removable media to move between computers.

I guess MS envisioned it as a digital replacement for the physical suitcase of documents you'd bring to/from work.

Furthermore, this "digital replacement" strategy can be seen in other (now mostly defunct) MS programs such as that program that was bundled with windows 3.11 ( I think it was called wincard.exe) that mimiced a rolodex.

I'll take my MCSE now, thank you.

EDIT: Seems there was some sync stuff with it as well. I'll settle for some junior certification, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Meanwhile apple tells you to put your removable media in the trash.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That always bothered me, from the start.

"Apple is more intuitive" oh really?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s awful. It’s like if you used a menu called Start to shut down Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Lol, yea, that annoyed the hell out of me from... The start! 😁

At least it wasn't trashing a floppy to eject it (oh, so I'm not erasing the whole disk, because trashing a folder deletes the entire folder).

They both have issues like this, I just find Apple to be less intuitive in general (and I've worked with it since about 1985, even spent a couple years doing desktop publishing with a Mac for work).

I never liked calling it the Start menu. I understand why they did it (makes it obvious for new users), but I could never think of a better name.

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