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

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:25:23 +0100, peterd.news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pd)
wrote:

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.

I'm not confused as to why you find me confusing.

With Windows, X means close this window, and quit if it's the last
window of that application open.

In Windows X mostly means close this App. In OSX the red dot could
mean anything.

Unless you click the enclosing window's
X, in which case it means close all the windows and then quit.

Not all of us spend all day in Word.

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?

Not all of us spend all day in Word.

With OSX, the red dot always means close this window.

Great.

If it's the only
window an application has, and having that application running without a
window makes no sense, it quits the app.

Not entirely true though eh.

Entirely predictable, and
perfectly intuitive if you understand what applications do.

I do and it isn't (or I wouldn't say so).

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,

Indeed, no one expects a user to have detailed knowledge of system
functionality. How many drivers know how a gearbox works?

but then they'll only ever
be running Microsoft Word, so won't be expecting any logic or sense from
a computer program anyway.

Indeed, they are there to produce documents.

Anyway, I think someone else here worked out that 50% of OSX apps
(mostly talking about those that come with and are OSX here) close
with the red dot.

Maybe I'll sort out a quiz for you and see if you really realise how
many really do behave predictability (but I know you would cheat, you
are like that) . ;-)

T i m

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