From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [G] The Upgrade That Turned Into a Downgrade...
In my work I have found that the one class of folks who had the MOST
problem with OS X were die-hard OS 9 users; truth be told, there's
more like OS 9 in OS X than not, but it's that very closeness that
trips people up, I think. People switching from Windows expect more
change, and so are better at adapting.
This is interesting to me and I guess I will know more about the
differences one day. At the moment, I cannot actually /see/ the
"majority" of similarities. We need to get a few things straight in
any analysis of this, the first being the importance of any
characteristic in which they are similar (things shared with almost
all systems like desktop aliases or shortcuts hardly can count.
From where I am standing all the fundamental operations are
different, window management particularly, no drop down of what
programs are open, you look in this dinky over cute Disney dock (at
least in Windows in this feature they just have a small neat line
and no fanfare). Changing what a bunch of files should open in is
rather different, searching the file system is different and many
other things. I am not here saying X is bad in any of this, rather
that in a whole bunch of the important things, it is very different
to 9. And naturally it is the important things that count most! But
I am still open to argument on all this.
David Elmo
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