Windows 95

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tolerance for file names in
plain English" (29-30). Traditionally, users had to think of file names that
summed up their work in eight letters or less. This was a constant problem
because frequently a user would look at a list of files to retrieve and think
"now what did I save that as?". Those days are over. Windows 95 will let the
user save his or her work with names like "New Speech" or "Inventory Spreadsheet
No. 1", making the contents of those files obvious. Much to the annoyance of
software developers, Windows 95 incorporates many features that previously
required add-on software. One such feature is the Briefcase- a program for
synchronizing the information stored on a user's desktop and notebook computers.
Keeping track of which files were the most recently updated was a big problem.
As Aley puts it, "Which copy of your speech for the sales conference did you
work on last, the one in the laptop or the one in the desktop?" (29-30). One
solution was to use programs like ...

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