Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders
All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.<p>"Program Files" and "Documents and Settings" have spaces to force software to support spaces in paths.<p>system32 for the Win32 version of system makes perfect sense. 64-bit Windows continues to use the Win32 API, and renaming system32 would have broken compatibility with dumb programs that hardcoded the name. SysWOW64 is the system32 directory for Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit. WOW64 is perhaps an overly cutesy name, but it's actually fairly descriptive.