goodbye my folder/eigene ordner

If you are a Microsoft user, there`s a big change coming in Longhorn -- the code name for the next MS operating system: the "My" prefix is disappearing. Microsoft users have become used to the "My Music," "My Pictures," and other "My" folders, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reported. Those windows folders will still be yours -- but they won`t keep hitting you over the head with that terminology. Ending a longstanding tradition, the Microsoft Corp. says, starting in the next Windows version due out next year, folders will be known simply as "Documents," "Music," and so on. The "My" prefix was apparently an attempt to create a personal connection between people and their computers at a time when the idea of using a computer might have been forbidding.



"Eigene Dateien", "Eigene Bilder", "Eigene Musik". Windows-Anwender sind die mit "Eigene" titulierten Ordner gewohnt. Für Longhorn hat Microsoft sich entschieden, die diversen "Eigene"-Ordner abzuschaffen.Microsoft will laut einem Bericht des "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" ab dem Windows XP-Nachfolger alle Ordner mit der Zusatzbezeichnung "Eigene" - im englischen "My" - abschaffen. Ursprünglich sei das "Eigene" eingeführt worden, um zwischen den Anwendern und deren Computer eine persönliche Bindung zu erzeugen, so Jim Allchin, Microsoft Group Vice President of Platforms.