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[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 195 points 1 month ago

Microsoft intentionally made programs install to C:\Program Files on Windows 95+ to force programmers to deal with spaces in filenames.

Someone make one of those "statements made by the utterly deranged" memes about it, please and thank you.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 78 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago

C:\Program Files

C:\Program Files (x86)

C:\ProgramData

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago
[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

me coming back to cmd after spending a month in command.com:

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

The fucking parenthetical x86 absolutely kills me. I don't normally wish dick cancer on people,

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

It's only localised in the file explorer. The actual folder name is always Program Files.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Only since vista, it used to be localized.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

what about placeholders/variables like %localappdata%, %windir%, %programfiles%?

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

I can only assume these always existed, otherwise it would have been a nightmare for everyone.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

Excel used to have, and I think it still has, localised function names.

Makes it a nightmare to look up stuff on the Internet.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 weeks ago

the entirety of office has localised hotkeys. whaddayamean ^F is "search"? it's for fat text!

[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

i hate that in the spanish edition save is ctrl+g...yet save as is still ctrl+shift+s

[-] Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Still does. Commas or semicolons as separators in functions differ at least. It fucking sucks.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 weeks ago

nope, that's an NT thing

[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Really? That is absolute insanity

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago

No this is just clever

[-] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

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