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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <23195@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:36:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.025913.29727@amd.com> <1991Mar24.065427.16198@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Mar26.011127.28302@amd.com> <1991Mar26.063111.3133@cs.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1991Mar26.063111.3133@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:

>On the mac, if you double click on the (greyed) icon for Word, you get
>back to the running copy. Also, on the Mac, double clicking on a
>second word doc gets you into word with the document, with Word for
>Windows, you will get the error message. This is only in part because
>of the way word is written, it is also because the FileManager,
>Program Manager and Desktop are seperate entities in Windows, but all
>parts of the same thing in the Macintosh Finder.

DDE or somesuch (OLE) should still allow windows to do this same thing.  Being
separate is probably not the problem.  The other thing I like about the MAC is
the way an application, once loaded, stays out of the way.  When I load Word or
Excel, or Powerpoint (etc.) the MAC only displays the open document and uses
a single command bar for all applications that are loaded.  While this was
annoying and confusing at first (I'm a long time windows user), it does
really make better use of the available screen display area.  With the MAC it
is normal to have three or four applications contantly loaded and in use, where
with windows I find 3-4 applications up simaltaneously is too cluttered and I
spent a lot of time moving, arranging, iconizing, etc., to use the apps 
together.  It is easy to forget that Excel or Powerpoint is loaded when using
the MAC.  With Windows, they always chew up real estate - so I'm constantly
loading and quiting them.  I think the MAC still leads, but windows is coming
along.


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