Ever since the Mighty Mouse came out, it seemed that Apple had said "Okay, we give in!" to the one-button-mouse thing. Now all the mice they sell are "Multi-button" mice.
Right-Click context menus do exists, and are not as rare as you would think on a Mac. Apple doesn't use them alot, but everybody else does. As somebody else pointed out, there are a lot of shortcut keys on a Mac. They're just different. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:00:07 -0700 Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > But tended to be somewhat less capable for power users. No right button > > context menus, ugh. > > I'm told that if you hook a mouse with more than one button up to a > Mac, the right button will actually bring up a context menu for some > things. Haven't tried it. > > I think context menus are a wonderful thing, greatly contributing to > ease-of-use, and I don't get why Apple is so dead set against them. > Prolly just Not Invented Here syndrome. > > > And less shortcut key combos. > > I've notice that Microsoft seems determined to take away (or at > least make harder to find/use) shortcut keys. Vista makes it very > hard to find the "show shortcut keys" option (whatever it's actually > called), and even when enabled, it doesn't seem to work consistently. > :-p > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
