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From: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Windows Applications...
Message-ID: <419@alchemy.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 91 21:46:45 GMT
References: <1061@stewart.UUCP> <3386@kluge.fiu.edu>
Reply-To: hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink)
Organization: Alchemy Software Designs
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In article <1061@stewart.UUCP> jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>In article <3386@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
>>
>>having used windows, apple has nothing to worry about in terms of GUI. windows
>>is the most pathetic interface i've ever seen on any computer.
>>

>What?!  The GUI applications that are appearing right now, like PageMaker 4.0,
>are virtually identical on the Mac and Windows platforms.  What is it about
>Windows that's so pathetic?  This is no flame; I'd really like to know what
>you find so bad about Windows.
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PageMaker and other applications ported from the Mac environment might operate 
almost the same way under windows as they do under the Mac OS, but it seems 
obvious that you have never tried to work on one such PC for any significant 
time, nor worked in the actual windows environemnt like the Program Manager 
(Microsoft's pathetic attempt at a Finder - which it isn't).  

It is interesting to note that Windows was supposed to introduce a coherent 
and consistent interface, yet even Microsoft applications do not follow that 
'standard' among themselves.

Saving in MS-Word : ALT-SHFT-F12
Saving as inMS-Word: ALT-F12

Saving in PageMaker(PC): CTRL-S

Need I say more...


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