HI Lutz,


>Hi Walter,
>
>not that many, beeing in a niche. But for that they are huge.
>I see more danger in maped drives (like Al pointed out) then benefit. User should understand UNC and the like or he is a CKI problem anyway.
>If you found mapped drives it's a simple indicator that the level of computer use stuck in the early 90s. Says something about your client.

We've got clients all over the world, including high profiles clinics, hospitals and universities. I yet have to encounter a single client that does not work with mapped drives. I also have to deal with users that are not interested in remembering server shares: they have more important stuff to do.

The fact that they are all over the place indicates that there is a reason for it, a benefit or else they would have been removed a long time ago.
So I have to disagree with you on this matter.

>It's all about to be not willing to learn and relearn. {Don't tell me I dislike to learn metro interface / style ;) }

Even if users could remember and type shares as easy as drive letters (which is obviously not true) users use the computers as a tool to do their work: most have no interest to learn anything about computers and windows than strictly necessary. They are not getting paid for their knowledge on computers but on what they need to do as efficient as possible.

I see drive letters equivalent to shortcuts on your desktop or taskbar. Get there quickly without having to know where it is buried in the start menu, or even worse... on disk.


>What is the problem placing a link somewhere instead of those mappings? Nowaydays you just drag the folder in favourites and you are done.
>I just wonder that nobody mimic CP/M user ....

Again most users do not how to do that and are not in the slightest interested in doing that.

Walter,