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Someone make one of those "statements made by the utterly deranged" memes about it, please and thank you.
what is even more funny about this is that the name of that directory used to be locale-dependent, so in sweden it was just called "Program", completely nullifying that idea.
C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)
C:\ProgramData
C:\PROGRA~1
The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don't normally wish dick cancer on people,
It's only localised in the file explorer. The actual folder name is always Program Files.
Only since vista, it used to be localized.
what about placeholders/variables like %localappdata%, %windir%, %programfiles%?
I can only assume these always existed, otherwise it would have been a nightmare for everyone.
Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.
Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.
the entirety of office has localised hotkeys. whaddayamean ^F is "search"? it's for fat text!
Still does. Commas or semicolons as separators in functions differ at least. It fucking sucks.
nope, that's an NT thing
Really? That is absolute insanity
No this is just clever
Given even what little I know of their history and what they are doing now, I cannot be sure this wasn't the intention at least partially