[DM-MUG] NYT, 5-26: "Ground Rules for the Windows-Macintosh War"

[Chris Tyrrell]

On May 26, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>>   I would also instance love being able to delete from the dialog box 
>> within an application without having to go to the desktop and delete 
>> it.
>
> I do this all the time with contextual menus...Control and click on 
> item and 'Move to Trash', or else I may not understand.

 From within the standard open/save dialog in Windows, one can do all 
sorts of file manipulation that can't be done in an open/save dialog on 
a Mac. It's one of the few places where Windows "does it better".

It also worth noting that, IMHO, too much is made of market share ratio 
as evidence of superiority. Of those 90-95% computers running Windows, 
how many were informed individual purchases? Far fewer than 90-95% to 
be sure. Some big company decides to standardize on Wintel, a decision 
made by a handful of people, and it represents tens of thousands of 
purchases. Nobody buys 10,000 Macs at once. Where would Ford and GM be 
without fleet sales?


Cheers,
Chris