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Thu Jan 10 00:52:58 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076057.html

Paul Moore wrote:
[...]
> No matter how you cut it, Windows isn't designed for per-user
> installable programs. Maybe a per-user site-packages just isn't
> appropriate on Windows.
> 
This reminds me of the early days of Microsoft Terminal Service (read: 
"X Window done wrong fifteen years later"), when various applications 
had to be modified to stop saving per-user data in global locations. It 
underlines the fact that essentially Windows is still betrayed by its 
original conception as a single-user system.

The idea that users would /program their own computers/ was totally 
alien to the Windows mindset.

looking-at-Vista-and-thinking-very-hard-ly y'rs  - steve
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