Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
rant I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's Corollaries is that No PC software upgrade is complete until the user interface has been entirely rewritten. Never was that corollary

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Salt
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:46:52 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 09:22:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pinnacle) wrote: I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's Corollaries is that No PC software upgrade is complete until the user

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Norris Jackson
] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS rant I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
Ah, the smug smiles on the faces of all Linux users. Not that the UI on the various X Window managers hasn't changed over time. And then there's the KDE vs. GNOME vs. Xfce vs. ... wars as well. But if I decide that I like the KDE 3.5 UI and don't like the new 4.1, then I just keep KDE 3.5! Nobody

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS Tom, What menu bar are you talking about? There are icons on the desktop, and a task bar down at the bottom

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 11:45:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pinnacle) wrote: Someone sent me a list of links offline to tell you how to enable the menu bars in Explorer, IE, etc. Either someone was nice enough to do that for you, or you did it and forgot? My Vista out of the box doesn't do that. I'm

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:21:32 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: But I'm not figuring out what you mean by taking the menu bar. I see ... my applications' menu bars (which I prefer to the single menu bar for multiple Macintosh applications). Ah, but the diachronic rationale. Before

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Salt
Someone sent me a list of links offline to tell you how to enable the menu bars in Explorer, IE, etc. Either someone was nice enough to do that for you, or you did it and forgot? I didn't enable any menu bars anywhere in Vista, but they're all there. Perhaps it's because I waited until SP1

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
Of Dave Salt Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS Someone sent me a list of links offline to tell you how to enable the menu bars in Explorer, IE, etc. Either someone was nice enough to do that for you, or you did