Thursday, March 2, 2000

M$ Revisionist History -- 2:00 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

In the "you've got to be freaking kidding me" department, Slashdot has linked to this article on Microsoft's site about a revolutionary new feature in Windows 2000 called "Single Instance Store". Basically, they answered this question, "why not save operating system disk space by storing duplicate files as links that point to a single file housed in a central location?" Obviously they never heard of the concept of a symbolic link. You know, it only took them a year and a half to implement it! And then we wonder why it takes them forever to address security issues . . .

Update! OK, SIS seems to be kind of an "automatic" symbolic link, but still. I'm not sure I want the OS doing something else behind my back that I may or may not want.

News for 03/02/2000

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