Re: Office 2007: wot a pile of ***

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From my POV, OSX is far less predictable than XP (and I'm not saying
XP is perfect here). Like that crap with half of the apps closing with
the red dot and half not. Ok, you may well come up with an excuse /
explanation re some of them behaving that way but until you have
learned what does what or use the "Quit' (not red dot) way you can
never predict intuitively. With Windows, X means close in all but a
few cases.

I know you find this one confusing, but I'm confused as to why it
confuses you.

With Windows, X means close this window, and quit if it's the last
window of that application open. Unless you click the enclosing window's
X, in which case it means close all the windows and then quit. Unless
you have another window open containing some windows of that
application, in which case it means close but don't quit. Um, how do you
predict that?

With OSX, the red dot always means close this window. If it's the only
window an application has, and having that application running without a
window makes no sense, it quits the app. Entirely predictable, and
perfectly intuitive if you understand what applications do.

I suppose those dullard "just a typist" users that have their PCs bought
for them by the accountants in Procurement can't be expected to
understand much about what applications do, but then they'll only ever
be running Microsoft Word, so won't be expecting any logic or sense from
a computer program anyway.

--
Pd
.

Loading