Re: M$ - so what should they do?

["Bruce Ediger" <eballen1 () qwest net>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Michael Schaefer wrote:

> Well, lets see, moving away from the Registry (single point of failure)
> would be a good step.
>
> Separating the operating system from programs would be great, I don't
> like the fact that everything and it's brother thinks it can or should
> dump files into the system directory.

How about changing the ".exe" convention?  Making a file executable by
it's "extension" probably causes a lot of opportunities for problems,
doesn't it?

Also, the magic file names, like "CON" and "AUX" should go away.

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