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Microsoft Will Drop "My" Prefix for Longhorn

I want to mention that Apple never used the My Whatever for folder names. So now Windows will, again, adopt another Macintosh way of doing things.

Ending a longstanding tradition, Microsoft Corp. plans to stop using the word "my" as the default prefix for such folders as "My Documents," "My Music," "My Pictures" and others along those lines. Starting in the next Windows version, due out next year, folders will be known simply as "Documents," "Music," and so on.