<story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Program Files&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Documents and Settings&amp;quot; have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.&lt;p&gt;system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it&amp;#x27;s actually fairly descriptive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders</title><url>http://secretgeek.net/ex_ms.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aegiso</author><text>What you see here is the result of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s ridiculous infighting and internal politics, constructed by the stack-ranking culture of doom.&lt;p&gt;You basically get ranked on how visible your stuff is to management, so you:&lt;p&gt;1) name your project as patriotically as possible. It&amp;#x27;s gotta include one of &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Microsoft&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;XML&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;COM&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;.NET&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Modern&amp;quot; -- preferably all of them multiple times, especially if it has nothing to do with any of them.&lt;p&gt;2) make sure to stick the name in as many places as possible. A great place is the default filesystem structure, where everyone is bound to come across it.&lt;p&gt;3) earn bonus points if you can massage it into a de-facto standard (hello, XHR)&lt;p&gt;With any luck, Microsoft Modern framework for Windows Azure .NET connectivity with Windows Azure 8.1 will show up on your reviewer&amp;#x27;s radar and you can enjoy your juicy bonus until the same time next year.&lt;p&gt;Source: used to work there&lt;p&gt;P.S. I&amp;#x27;m not a Microsoft cynic -- just having a bit of fun :).</text></comment>