Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

[Dave Howe]

Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
> I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would
> start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives
> (like unix has done for decades :) ).  When I first saw this
> discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that
> expected to use 'X:\PATH'-style filenames or chdrive() (or whatever
> that lib call to change the default drive is).  Someone suggested
> that MS might ship an emulator to handle translation (at some
> non-trivial cost in performance, else no one would have an incentive
> to refactor) until the vendors could rewrite their apps to use the
> new native filesystem.
The more likely solution though is that longhorn will *default* to a \ 
rooted file system for fixed drives, rather than the current situation 
where it defaults to a set of drive letters.