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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I guess you never worked on a help desk supporting tens of thousands of users spread westwards from Fiji to Honolulu - the request would have come from MS's multinational corporate clients.
Most people get along fine without knowing about extensions because they do what they need to do by clicking pretty icons on their desktops to start programs and then opening the data they want. The files types presented in the programs are often limited to the ones the program is designed to handle not unlike Add files to selected books presents only ebook file types. The start at a program paradigm pre-dates Windows by at least a decade.
If people wanted to drive their systems from their data they would all be installing 3rd party multi-pane tabbed file managers, but they don't, they install glitz and glamour laden gadgets like StarDock and or have apoplexy when their Start button disappears 
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But... but... but... data is the important stuff!
