Comments on: Unknown file extensions http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/08/04/unknown-file-extensions/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Lurker http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/08/04/unknown-file-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-247523 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:11:10 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2996#comment-247523 DOC and XLS, but no DOCX or XLSX? What about PPT(X)?

]]> By: Business Questionnaire http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/08/04/unknown-file-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-231935 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:58:04 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2996#comment-231935 Well I have not taken the survey, but the fact is even i don’t know few of these file types..thanks for sharing. Atleast from now i will what this extensions mean. Hats off to CLUB BBQ. I hope they take few more surveys related to IT field! thanks

]]> By: Wintersweet http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/08/04/unknown-file-extensions/comment-page-1/#comment-231922 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:42:08 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2996#comment-231922 I think that was a backwards way for them to structure the survey. I imagine a lot of the people who thought they were familiar with all the file types haven’t even heard of the ones they weren’t familiar with, and some of them probably don’t even know there are extensions other than, say, .mp3, .jpg, .doc, .html, .pdf, and .xls, or whatever. They don’t know what they don’t know! They probably have no idea about .aac or .css, never mind .odt or .ogg or .iso or .tar or .dmg … (and none of those are getting into really obscure, programmer-level formats). It’s a little alarming to think of how many Windows users are probably oblivious to extensions (at *least* 50% according to the self-reporting here, and probably more, given that I suspect a lot of overestimation of their own abilities).

Also, .bat wasn’t on there, and that’s a dangerous one (even if they are more difficult to run in Vista).

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