Thank you for clearing this up. Both you and Peter make an excellent case for the attributes Windows held over the Mac. But having used both platforms from 1990 forward, I have to say that the ease of working with the Mac negated any shortcuts Windows may have offered -- FOR ME. I think this boils down to a simple case of preference just like the recent form/function debate. I never missed anything Windows had to offer. Admittedly, there were times when I would have enjoyed a keystroke to help me navigate some task. To that end, there were any number of shareware applications that could be added to accommodate that task. Many applications now allow custom key combos to define almost everything in the program. I don't think anything is different today under OSX. But the Mac applications were by far superior in those days to any I used under Windows so you wouldn't find me caught dead using them, even if I could use the tab key to move around them. Frankly, I prefer being able to take my hands off the keyboard every now and then. Besides, even today after 20 years of Mac training and use, I routinely lapse on what I'm doing and use the wrong key combo, sometimes resulting in catastrophe. Using keystrokes to do everything is not necessarily a good thing. And with Windows, needing to keep up with what a left and right mouse buttons do combined with what keys to press and adding enough key combo variations to do everything a mouse can do, well for me anyway, it would just be asking for trouble. Particularly for seldom used keystrokes. And if you hit one by accident and didn't know what it did, how would you ever know!? One quick anecdote has to do with my taking a computer literacy test for a job. It tested my ability to operate Microsoft applications under Windows 98 within a time limit. The thing was, over and over it kept asking me to do complex tasks with keystrokes. Needless to say, my familiarity with the software on a Mac meant I had no idea what some of the keystrokes were. I scored pretty low on the test even though I can operate rings around most people on any computer. When it was done, I wondered about why I had been forced into conforming to operating Windows the way the test wanted me to, when I could have aced the test if I could have done the job the way I was most comfortable. That to me is Windows thinking in a nutshell. Just like DOS, it forces you to operate the way it does, not the way which is most convenient for you. Both Liam and Terry have proven this with the limitations Windows imposed on keystrokes in future versions. Whereas the Mac seems to continually add that kind of functionality. Users asked for an automatic dump to trash combo, they got it. In fact, OSX has more key commands than I know what to with, even if I cared to use them. For me, I'll pass on the whole Windows experience, even 3.x, which it CANNOT be argued made life more convenient for some. Just not me. :-)
> From: Liam Proven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Windows could once be operated successfully 100% with the keyboard, no > mouse at all, and it was fast & easy & efficient to do so. > > It's the only GUI I've ever seen that could be driven like this and it > was pure gold. Wonderful to have. > -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
