Re: Observations from a Windows user

Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yesterday I was sent two powerpoints (and they are not the normal thing
that I would touch with a bargepole).

I double click the first one, and it opens powerpoint (no suprise here).
I double click the second one, another powerpoint tab appears in the
task bar and my view is the second one. I want to compare these, so I
select the first tab and drag powerpoint to another screen. Where is the
other powerpoint? I click the other tab, the window changes to the other
view. huh?
ok, I have to switch to doing something else. I click the red close
button (that we know *always* quits a windows application) and it closes
that powerpoint view but the window is still there with the other one!

Does this make sense?

It makes no sense at all. I get this sometimes with XP, but not
reliably. I haven't been able to work out when it opens two instances of
the same application, when it opens two windows on the same instance,
and when it opens one window with two documents. Sometimes when I hit
that little line widget to hide one window, everything disappears and
I'm left at the desktop. Sometimes I click it and just that document
disappears.

Sometimes I open a document and a tab appears on the task bar, sometimes
it doesn't. Sometimes my other tabs disappear, and get grouped under one
application tab. Sometimes new windows appear at the right hand end of
the task bar, sometimes in the middle.

Usually tabs appear in the order I open applications, so in an effort to
build some muscle memory I open all the applications I use in a
particular order in the morning. But of course, if you close the last
document in an application, that app quits and when you restart it, it
comes up at the right hand end of the task bar. Usually. I haven't found
a way yet to reorder the tabs in the task bar - can they be dragged into
a particular order somehow, like dock icons?

Plus I have to use three different corporate databases. Two of them are
not GUI. One of them requires esc to say "okay, search for this record",
the other one wants a return. One of them wants Ctrl-c to get out of a
screen, the other one wants End. One of them wants E to go up a level in
the command hierarchy, the other ones wants Pg-up. Because what I'm
doing is comparing the data between the databases and trying to
reconcile anomalies, I'm constantly flipping back and forth between
them. Going one way Alt-tab works, going the other way I have to
Alt-tab-tab. God knows why - it seems that the second application
swallows the first Alt-tab.

For an OSX user, going back to using Windows is just a constant reminder
of why we're willing to put up with some USB cameras having no drivers
for Mac, Apple's quaint attitude to customer relations, and any other
shortcomings of the Mac ecosystem.

--
Pd
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