Why is Microsoft always behind the times? Is it key to their success?

>>57634263
>metric prefix
>shortened to single letter
>binary prefix
>shortened to single letter + i

for what purpose.jpg

how about using only K
for example we said some decades ago that our computer had 64K memory

why Ki ?

>>57634263
holy shit, retard alert

>>57634649
Because having an HDD of 500.000.000K would be too much and is shit to write.

>>57636017
500G, you mean?

>>57634263
>the KiB meme

Reminder that this is a thing only because hard drive manufacturers have been using rounded values since the early 1990s. Nobody noticed until they were using "GB" instead of "GiB" at which point the entire industry had to rationalize Hard Drive III: The Search for Shekels.

>>57634263
>>57634649
>Straightedge unit autism
>Using uppercase K for 'kilo', when uppercase K stands for Kelvin and lowercase k stands for 'kilo'

1 kB = 1000 Byte
1 KiB = 1024 Byte
1 KB = 1 Kelvin Byte

>>57634263
Micro curry BTFO

>>57634673
Ki
is short for
Kibi
is short for
Kilobinary

But neither one is a kilo-unit of bytes