Quote:
Originally Posted by WillAdams
Would someone tell me why in this day of USB and Firewire and Lightning and so forth we still have drive letters?
Getting rid of them is one thing which would make me want to upgrade to Windows 10.
I found them tedious and annoying back in the days of CP/M....
|
There are some very good reasons for the retention of the drive letters:
- People are used to them. Very used to them.
- They are a lot easier to use than to try to remember the \\server\share or drive name.
- Using drive letters for mapped drives helps with security in enterprise environments. I had one project were we removed the ability of users to use UNC paths in an app so that we could control where the output files went.
- Drive letters are embedded at the lowest levels of Windows. All over the place. The same sort of embedation that limits full path names to 256 chars (or whatever too short value it is).