NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/advocacy/2847

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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:45:10 -0500
From: Carl B Jabido <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Workers hate windoze, revolution at 11! :-)
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.advocacy: 20-Nov-92 Re: Workers hate
windoze, r.. by Fred [e-mail]
> I still cannot see what makes the MAC interface soo easy to use.  You
> simply use the Finder to open folders and start apps.  Same as in
> Windows, except that the desktop is always there. Each MAC app steals the
> main menu bar when it is active.  Windows each app has its own menu
> bar.  When you "minimize" a MAC app you have to use the silly icon on
> the right of the Bar to maximize it (make it active).  The desktop does
> not change.  In Windows the active app "jumps to the top of the desktop".
> Windows makes an icon for the minimized apps, MAC simply adds it to the
> menu of the apps that are running.

Yeah, but on the Mac, the file system is integrated with the Finder.
That's a big thing.  Windows splits it up into Program Manager/File
Manager.  That really sucks.  (In fact, the reason why I'd rather go to
Mac instead of NT if OS/2 fails.)  About the menu bar, OLE 2.0 is going
to do that.  I find the Mac's way of the active app taking over the menu
bar is much better; it makes the system more document oriented.  About
the minimized icon behavior, I agree.  Mac's "hiding" of windows really
sucks.

Carl Jabido
[e-mail]