Use at Your Own Risk

August 1996 / Inbox / Use at Your Own Risk

Besides being interesting in itself, Microsoft's Power Toys suite of utilities ("Underground Upgrades for Windows 95," April) shows a design flaw in the localization model of Win 95. Since the suite's installation procedure did not recognize the standard folder names of my Italian version, it created a new, parallel, English folder hierarchy--"StartUp" instead of "Esecuzione automatica" and "Accessori es/Multimedia" instead of "Accessori/Multimedia." It may cost companies substantial money, both in support and wasted employee time, to help their Win 95 users remove the clutter from their desktops.
Paolo Amoroso
amoroso@mclink.it

Microsoft is quick to point out that the Power Toys--and the newer Kernel Toys--are not part of Win 95 and are unsupported. At the prese nt time, they exist only in an English-language version; you won't find them in any international area on Microsoft's Web site. While this may not constitute a localization flaw in Win 95 itself, it's definitely something that users of international versions should consider.--Eds.

Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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