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Muhammad Hegab
Gents,
With Microsoft seemingly becoming more open to playing other players in the software industry, including supporting and getting involved with open-source project, as well as adapting and using other operating systems, isn't it about time they fixed the confusion between binary-based and decimal-based units for file size?
It has been over two decades since the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) established the binary-based 1024-multiple units of bytes, such as kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibibyte (GiB) to avoid the confusion with decimal based 1000-multiple units such as kilobyte (KB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB) as per IS symbols.
Other major operating systems already respect that as well as HDD manufacturers, so Microsoft is the odd one here, and it causes confusion and inconvenience at times.
Some people probably still like the 1024-based units, so I imagine it could be made customization in Windows settings, where the user can choose the 1024-based units with their proper symbols (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) or the 1000-based units also with their proper symbols (e.g. KB, MB, GB).
Is this too much to ask?
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With Microsoft seemingly becoming more open to playing other players in the software industry, including supporting and getting involved with open-source project, as well as adapting and using other operating systems, isn't it about time they fixed the confusion between binary-based and decimal-based units for file size?
It has been over two decades since the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) established the binary-based 1024-multiple units of bytes, such as kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibibyte (GiB) to avoid the confusion with decimal based 1000-multiple units such as kilobyte (KB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB) as per IS symbols.
Other major operating systems already respect that as well as HDD manufacturers, so Microsoft is the odd one here, and it causes confusion and inconvenience at times.
Some people probably still like the 1024-based units, so I imagine it could be made customization in Windows settings, where the user can choose the 1024-based units with their proper symbols (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) or the 1000-based units also with their proper symbols (e.g. KB, MB, GB).
Is this too much to ask?
Continue reading...