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
On 27 Oct 2010, at 05:20, Scott Gomez wrote:
> There are some Macintosh apps where I think that the Macintosh, from a
> simplicity of use factor, is head-and-shoulders above others. Production of
> simple multimedia presentations is one. But that's simply a matter of the
> choice of UI, and while it means Apple has a significant lead now, it does
> not mean that others can't implement similar UI changes that could eliminate
> that lead quite easily.
>
> The Apple UI does have some annoying quirks, however. Such as the ambiguity
> about "closing" a program (using the red button in the corner of the
> window). If I push the close button, is the application closed, or simply
> removed from view? Sometimes it appears to be one, sometimes the other. I've
> yet to find a pattern to when which thing happens, and there are occasions
> where that's supremely annoying.
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