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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:47:30 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:40:47 +0000

Usually they don’t change such old UNIX structures, but those things which are specific to a certain distribution are changed quite frequently, at least if you compare it to Windows. Symbolic and hard links come from the UNIX world, they are relatively new in Windows. That’s why such folder name changes have a tradition under UNIX. But take Vista x64 as an example. The folder system32 only contains 64-bit libraries. They could have renamed it to system64, but they didn’t do it because of compatibility reasons. I suppose they renamed Documents and Settings because they wanted to separate user data from system wide application settings. That’s why we have C:\users and C:\ProgramData. I think that makes sense.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:18:55 +0000

@Michael:
Basic structure changes such as moving /home? No way! Not a linux freak btw, did do my time running a server(FTP, DNS, HTTP, Samba, ipchains) back in 99…

I digress, and address this: “why such changes are necessary.” Really, why are they?
Why couldn’t “Documents and Settings” stay? Hell, for that matter, why did %SystemRoot%\Profiles get changed?
Consistency, what a large word when it comes to M$… I remember this coming up in another topic (oh yea, server management tools)… The consistent part about that is: use RDP.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:45:18 +0000

Leonardo, I agree, it is often hard to understand why such changes are necessary. But Microsoft is relatively conservative about them. Linux distros are much more radical when it comes to changing directory structures.

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ITsVISTA Web Links: April 25th | ITsVISTA — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:27:27 +0000

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By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:09:51 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, I expected such capability it isn’t likely I’ll need to use such tools, managing several 3-8 computer networks on XP & Server 2000/2003.
Speaking of virtualization… To Microsoft: WHY change so much, location-wise? Prime example is c:\users. WHY change so much, I want a valid reason!
Now we have reparse points doing the CYA for backward compatibility because MS decided to change something so basic as the user home path.

Arf. Off-topic and ranty!