haha
"A mediocre desktop OS entirely unsuited to the modern networked world. How much would it really take to revise and fix this behaviour? ITS LAZY."
its BACKWARDS COMPATABLE, something that is actually important to MS's end users.It would take a lot to fix it and make everything still work with the old software.
"Ash, why would Windows users have problems with extensions, when users of other OSes (say, OSX) don't?"
I bet some OSX users do, but the percentage of non IT techy people on the other OS'es is a hell of a lot lower than on windows.
"The idiot users who delete them because they don't like the look will have to learn, like everyone else has done till now, not to change the extension."
the idiot users are your clients, the same ones who will complain to you and cost you money when something breaks, also liekly to go moaning on a forum somewhere to generate bad publicity when idiot ms haters find it much like the fact that autorun still pops up is being used by ms haters, as they forget that fact that the trick in questionis actually closed because you can't create your own tasks in there!