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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: The Best Linux Distros for First Time Switchers from Windows and  Mac
Date: 26 Apr 2015 20:08:15 GMT
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On 2015-04-26, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <cq4d8aFhhmbU4@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> >> Apple do things differently from MS just because they can and just to
>> >>*BE* different.
>> >
>> > Since Apple got there first, how can they be doing things differently
>> > from MS "just because they can"?
>> 
>> Revisionist history. Actually, it was the other way around. Microsoft
>> did things differently in Windows to differentiate it from the only
>> other GUI-driven mainstream OS, Mac OS.
>
> they had to do things differently, because microsoft didn't want it to
> be overly obvious that they were copying apple. 
>
> for instance, apple had the close box in the top left, so microsoft put
> it on the right. apple had the drives on the right side of the desktop,
> so microsoft put it on the left. the apple menu is in the top left, so
> the start menu is in the bottom left.

Yep. And it's less usable as a result. 

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