Microsoft OS uses old/obsolete naming convention for data measurement

[rbjohns4]

According to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

In 2000, the IEC established a new naming convention for data measurement where units of measurement such as KB, MB, GB, TB are "Decimal" 1000 based and KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB are "Binary" 1024 based. (e.g. 1 TB = 1000 GB or about 931 GiB.) This makes sense because, for example, one kilometer is not 1024 meters and one kilogram is not 1024 grams when using 'kilo'. However, various windows operating systems still use 1024 based for KB, MB, GB, TB, etc. This has caused much confusion and as a result, hard drive manufacturers who use the new convention have been inappropriately sued for "deceptive marketing practices".

What I am suggesting is for Microsoft to adopt the new naming convention and provide the appropriate updates to help bring about the use of a consistent unit of measurement for data by changing their KB, MB, GB, TB, etc to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, and so on.

Best regards,
Richard Johnson
rbjohns4@live.com

 

[number13]

yes one K of memory is 1024 but that was a issue of the past brought forward, memory did not start out addressed 5 bit it was 4 bit and all memory is based on that, so when they got 8, 16, and 32bit, you have small difference in the numbers, and when you buy a HDD and you have 40G HDD you cannot use all of that space because of partition and format issues