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From: rcook@grumpy.helios.nd.edu
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: <1991Apr9.031853.1763@news.nd.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 03:18:53 GMT
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|> 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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Personally, I find this to be a huge fault with the Macintosh interface.
You can't show more than one program on the screen at once.  In windows, you have
a choice, just maximize all the running programs. Either click in the maximize
box, or more easily double-click anywhere on the title bar. Switch to the next
program using ALT-TAB.  Hey the computer now acts like a mac.

Robert Kelley Cook
U. of Notre Dame '91