![]() For example, my Word doc titled "Briefing" worked fine on my Mac but when I e-mailed it to a colleague using Windows, he would get a file that his PC didn't know what to do with. For much of the 1990s, Mac users would send files via FTP or e-mail which - lacking file extensions - were difficult for PC users to deal with when they received them. Unfortunately, the downfall of this method came in sharing files across platforms. (If you're interested in a detailed exploration of why, read any of John Siracusa's in-depth OS X reviews on Ars Technica for his fierce and well developed defenses of the old method.) This was a much superior solution in many ways. Honestly, I think the original Mac OS did it better with four character file type and creators meta-properties that the file can have.
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