# Oh thank god: Microsoft to drop the "My" prefix

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 2, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518 "2005-06-02T07:32:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518/41 "2005-06-03T15:44:06Z")

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> [@alaska56](#):
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> Its not really “My” Comuter anyway.
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> Half the stuff is licensed to the hilt.
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> I am suprised Microsoft let us own our computers for so long.

What makes you so sure the “My” is referring to you in any way? Bill is the one that put it there, after all.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518/42 "2005-06-04T08:34:44Z")

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**AHunter** , unless I’m very much mistaken you _cannot_ customize MacOS X at the level I’m talking about without downloading [X](http://x.org) and some window managers. It’s the difference between switching paint jobs and buying a whole bunch of different cars.

It seems to me that all of the things you mentioned are simply theme changers. That’s all XP gives you as well. Switching window managers under X alters the entire GUI (with the exception of one keybinding: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills X unless you’ve explicitly rebound it). You can run window managers as different as [UDE](http://udeproject.sourceforge.net/index.shtml) and [PWM](http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/pwm/). It allows display hacks like [3D-Desktop](http://linuxreviews.org/features/3ddesktop/). And I haven’t even gotten into the _geeky_ ones.

My point is, going from that richness to flipping through themes would be intolerable to me at this point. I’d have to install X and effectively waste the (large) amount of my purchase cost that went to paying Apple for their proprietary, inflexible GUI.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518/43 "2005-06-05T05:27:52Z")

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OK, that makes sense.

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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518/44 "2005-06-06T00:15:56Z")

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Is it being replaced with “Our or MS’s”? 😕

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-god-microsoft-to-drop-the-my-prefix/306518/45 "2005-06-06T00:42:29Z")

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> [@Taber](#):
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> So they’re just going to be crosoft? that’s a weird name.

You know, it’s not often I shoot snot from my nose.

Thank you.

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