You mean to say Windows 8 has a fax folder?

Take a trip down memory lane all the way back to 1990. The Windows 8 My Documents folder has a Fax sub-folder.

Younger readers, ask your parents about faxes and fax machines. They were a thing once.

Since I haven’t sent or received a fax in 15 years, I can only assume the folder was automatically installed on my behalf by Windows. I’ve installed a fresh copy of the operating system so it isn’t something previously hidden from a previous version that Windows helpfully dragged up from the vaults. This is a new 2012 installation of Windows 8.

I don’t remember seeing it there before so my guess is the folder was added when I used the Windows Fax and Scan software to scan some paper documents. Although it could have been there all along in a hidden corner. Windows is like that.

Which brings me to my next question: why does Windows 8 have Fax software at all? There’s an argument for legacy stuff on a PC. Microsoft is famous for backward compatibility, but this is ridiculous.