Microsoft isn't attempting to emulate the Mac O/S. They are BOTH emulating
Xerox's O/S.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to disagree with you in these 2 instances, Scott.
>
> Micro$oft has been trying to emulate the MacOS (I reckon) for years, but
> the UI remains obstinately MS; it's an ethos that was embodied in Vista and
> that, for example, gave you that daft warning that someone (you) had just
> tried to do something dangerous (it wasn't).
>
> The red button on a window closes the window, not the application; and that
> is the same for every application on a Mac. The windowing system is what
> makes the Mac for me. There is one way to quit a programme, unlike in
> Winders.
>
> In Word, for instance, you have to keep closing windows with Alt-F4 until
> the blimmin' programme quits. No doubt you will offer me alternatives (like
> the menu Exit), but it's the way each programme acts differently that is
> strange with Winders.
>
> But whenever I think of cursing Winders, I think of Moose's oft-repeated
> points: that it works for him. So we have grown used to the UIs and made
> them work for us.
>
> Chris
>
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