The reason for choosing the non-office based idea is that over the past 5 years the number of pc's owned by home users has increased. With the number of PC's expected to pass one billion with 50% of western Europe homes having at least one PC in 2007 and increased from less than 20% in the 80's.
Most of the operating system and interface design was originally designed for the office use as when they where created in the 60's when it was believed that only company's, governments and the very wealthy would own pc's. This meant that the design was created to replicate an office environment. This is very obvious with the original operating systems link windows 3.0:
In recent years this has been changed to reflect the new influx of home users, this has lead to more graphics and smother designed. Link in the the new windows 7:
Even with this shift towards the new home user designs and functions there are still many parts of the system which are very similar to the old office based design. These include the Main Screen being called the desktop (based on the fact you keep the items you most use on your desk for quick access) and the filing system (based on the idea you keep all your files kept organised and kept together)
My System
my system will be designed to work best for the new home user where they don't want to keep all there files stored in a fixed structure like you do in an office but more want to be able to keep stuff how they want and have it easy to locate files all at the same time. so if they have two files they use together a lot then they don't need to keep them in separate places even if that works best in there filing system. so that files can exist in two places at the same time.
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