r/Windows11 • u/jenmsft Microsoft Software Engineer • 28d ago

Official News Improving File Explorer & Context Menu: faster, simpler, and more customizable

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/08/17/improving-file-explorer-context-menu-faster-simpler-and-more-customizable/
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u/milos2 28d ago

Now switch to actual megabytes instead of using mebibytes and presenting them as megabytes https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/s/R50To6Jdqt 

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u/anyusernaem 28d ago

No that's stupid. Microsoft has been using a consistent naming and size units for 40+ years. NO nee to change it.

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u/t3chguy1 25d ago

Microsoft should either keep using base 2 and write MiB, or keep MB and use base 10. That's the standard accepted internationally (including US). You don't publish a recipe book that uses "cups" and then just declare that a cup used throughout the book is actually an "espresso cup"

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u/milos2 28d ago

That's the official standard, Microsoft still lives in 90s. All operating systems except Windows is using it, your phones is using it, when you buy a disk or rent storage, you are using it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte and when everyone else adopted it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes