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> > No you don't. You can have a free Word, Excel or PowerPoint Viewer
> >program, or a compatible program like WP.
> > Anyway, are Mac "standards" like QuickTime, PDF etc. automatically
> >viewable with all Macs?
>
> I was talking about drag'n'drop between programs. You answered
> talking about the office dinosaur.
>
> What has drag and drop between program to do with Office?
If you go back the thread, the original point _was_ about Office. I
said, that people buy Office for several reasons, including the fact
that they are well-integrated into one package. You replied that
everything is in Mac. I replied, that I didn't mean that, but that how
easily you can convert or embed documents from one Office program to
another. You replied that then you need the Office programs to view
these files (which obviously is the case pretty much with all programs
that have their own file format, BTW). I replied with the above. Now it
seems that you're confusing things a bit.
> There are high amount of user interface features in Windows you never
> use, because the design is so shattered that discovering the
> features takes some power user friend of yours to tell you about
> them. An average Mac-user can use his machine more efficiently,
> because the Mac OS user interface is so clear.
I wouldn't agree with that 100%. It might be true that some things are
much clearer with Mac, but are these essential to the regular office
worker who only reads emails, writes memos, does some spreadsheets and
surfs the net? I'd say, that from this viewpoint Windows and MacOS are
quite equal. Except that a Mac in more expensive than a PC and there are
is less software available.
If one works with media, be that print, multimedia, sound, moving
picture or whatever (except for web, which is a different story since
most of the end users also use Windows and in my opinion web sites in
general should thus be Windows-accessible first, or just text that can
be processed on any sort of machine), Mac has lots of great features
that makes it better for those users.
If one is a programmer, security expert or such, Linux/FreeBSD or
something of the like is probably the best. Very secure, stable and
efficient. The difficult UI is no problem since we're talking about
expert users.
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