Microsoft Will Drop ‘My’ Prefix for Longhorn:
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, Microsoft says, starting in the next Windows version due out next year, folders will be known simply as “Documents,” “Music,” and so on.
It’s a precursor to renaming all folders and whatnot as Our Computer, Our Music, Our Documents, and so on.
And in code, you won’t be able to name your variables with the My prefix either…
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