Why did Win10 change from "My Computer" to "This Computer"?

Before Windows XP, the computer icon on the desktop was always called "My Computer." However, with Vista, Win7, and later Win8/Win8.1 and Win10, the legendary Microsoft "Renaming Department" was very busy. First, it was changed to "Computer" in Windows 7, then it was changed to "This Computer" in Windows 8/Windows 8.1, and now it has become "This Computer" in Windows 10. Why is Microsoft changing it over and over again?

Although Microsoft has not explained the reason, judging from the development of the industry, XP and previous computers are not very popular, and the share of each person is not high. Therefore, it is understandable to call the computer you can use "my computer", mainly because it is easy to understand. Later, with the arrival of Vista and Win7, computer penetration increased significantly and performance was significantly improved, so calling it a "computer" made more sense from a macro perspective.

Later, in the Win8/Win8.1, and now Win10 era, the cloud concept began to become popular, and the price of computers continued to decrease. The number of computers per person may be more than two, so neither "my computer" nor "computer" is enough to accurately express the concept of the current computer. Therefore, the English version uniformly adopted the name "This PC", and in China it became "this computer" and "this computer". Specifically, since these two systems (Win8/Win8.1 are counted as one in this article) basically use the Microsoft account login method, it may happen that one account has multiple computers, which means that "my computer" may be more than one, so it is more practical to specifically point out "this computer".

It is not appropriate to use "computer" because the addition of the cloud concept expands the concept of "computer". The "computer" you can use on these two systems may not only be limited to the current client, but also include various network-related computers such as OneDrive. However, what you see when you click on the computer icon is basically limited to the files on "this computer", so this term is more accurate. As for why "this computer" was changed to "this computer", maybe the "name change department" thought it sounded better. The picture below is the result of Microsoft Bing machine translation——

In Win10, Microsoft changed the "computer search results" to "this computer", perhaps after some thought...

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