Windows.. it's like coming home! 3415

You seem to feel that having OS X available justifies buying a Macintosh to run Windows on.

Surely one must *want* to run OS X before this makes the slightest bit of sense, no?

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Not just that! Don't forget Media Center.

That's a very small set of functionality you are talking about! Frankly, you make the Mac sound worse than it is. :D

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This is not included with the OS, and anyway it isn't the same thing as resolution independance. It changes only particular, selected fonts.

I've tried the developer preview included with Tiger; it does not 'work out of the box' any more than Window's technology does. App support is required.

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Dialogs are an easy case to build an argument around. If I were going to bother making such a dialog, I would use preferences screens or property dialoges for my examples.

But the UI differences go deeper than that on Mac OS X; the OS 9 apps have a very different "multiple windows" aesthetic than you see on OS X.

I should make a separate post about this; it's interesting in its way. And I can spin it as "Apple Sux0rs" easily enough. :D

The situation seems to be to be a bit better for the print dialog on Windows than for open-save.

You mean the controls in the breastle bar? These are very consistant. A very few apps add an additional control or two next to the standard ones.

But even those silly apps that ditch the whole Windows UI for some wacky thing of their own design preserve those buttons with only cosmetic changes, or so I have found.

And I have found this to be true on the Mac also, except for Clbuttic apps. Windows arguable scores here, since Win16 apps get 'modern' breastle bars on modern windows, for what that's worth.

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Recently?

Windows Desktop Search. Visual C# Express Edition.

These are both "bundle with the OS" things for Apple.

snip- Mac apps burning CPU with no windows open

I think the user should easily open and close windows or other UI elements, and let the apps manage their processes automatically.

This seems to work quite well in Windows.

I have seen Acrobat Reader do this, sometimes, and a few open source projects do it, but most software does the right thing: fast startup, eager shutdown.

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That's strange. Palettes are just an array of icons, visually, right? They're not having to spin up OpenGL to do pixel-shaded 3D palettes or anything like that, are they?

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He's in there... lurking... just a mouse click away.

I've heard good things about the next Office too.

Indeed, I think MS may be heading for a UI redesign more serious than Aqua was; they seem to feel that menu bars are obsolete and must go. IE7 and WMP11 also don't have menu bars by default.

I am not unsympathetic. My experience has been that many, if not most users do not even notice the menu bar.

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I expect Adobe is going with all deliberate speed, but it's not as critical for them as for Apple; they've still got a Windows version and all, should it come to that.

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