Something that I was wondering for a long long time, and I still have no answer to:<p>In the drive properties of windows, the free space is marked as pink or purple, the used space blue. Why not a shade of green and red?<p>Has this a design reason or historical techical reason?
Probably a Microsoft programmer once wrote a line like this as a placeholder so he could get something on screen:<p>fillColor = (used) ? 0x0000ff : 0xff00c0;<p>And then he got an emergency assignment to fix an obscure SQL Server bug related to NTFS extended attributes, and "fillColor" was never touched again.
Ok, lets go back first IBM standard graphics mode ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter</a> ) had a limited palette which was black, light cyan, light magenta and white. maybe they were being backwards compatible.<p>Seems as logical as any other theory