Why Microsoft Should Fear Intel Macs" 519

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:54:33 -0400, Stuart Krivis

Stuart, weren't you aware of XP's ability to CONFIGURE the behavior of the Recycle Bin? We can turn OFF delete confirmation for the Recycle Bin if we want to. Just right-click on the Recyle Bin icon, choose "Properties", and uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog" on the "Global" tab. In addition, the amount of space reserved for each drive's Recycle Bin may be separately configured. As well as those two, we can also opt to cause all deleted files to go straight to the "bit bucket", rather than the Recycle Bin. But take care with this option, since files sent to the "bit bucket" (actually a "void" device) by mistake cannot be recovered if needed, since they are not saved anywhere on an actual physical device. In fact, they are not saved ANYWHERE when sent to the "bit bucket". Such files cannot even be recovered by very low-level data recovery tools of ANY kind. Their file names are not even written into the Master File Table.

Microsoft did not "think it would be a good idea to throw another hurdle in the way of the user for no reason". Instead, they thought it would be a good idea to give the user CHOICES, rather than dictating to them how they use their machines, as Apple does with OS X.

This atbreastude is pretty much the same atbreastude ALL Microsoft developers have -- Give the users choices. Too bad OS X applications give the users few choices. Too bad Apple gives its users too few choices. Just too bad.

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