About right, Foolestroupe, even allowing for the bias!
Windows 3.1 was in common use when the web started and still had 8.3 filename format.

Why MS should still be tied to the three letter file name suffix 12 years later is a mystery, though.
I hope they're not touting the shedding of that millstone as an "innovation"...

There are equally confusing scenarios of upper/lower case confusion - Windows hosted web servers can be case-insensitive, causing confusion when a site is move to UNIX hosting, or a site works OK when tested locally on Windows but when uploaded to a UNIX-hosted web server any mismatch between link names and actual file names shows up as a 404.

Anahata