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Microsoft vs. Apple software - which do you prefer

Which do you prefer?

  • Word

    Votes: 27 38.6%

  • Pages

    Votes: 10 14.3%

  • Excel

    Votes: 33 47.1%

  • Numbers

    Votes: 6 8.6%

  • PowerPoint

    Votes: 15 21.4%

  • Keynote

    Votes: 14 20.0%

  • Windows 7

    Votes: 34 48.6%

  • OS X

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Total voters
    70
PhantomWolf said:
Only because when they released Vista no-one could find the "Start" button.
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And if you right mouse it and choose properties, you get the "start menu" dialog. And help calls it the start menu. And....

The Start menu (overview)

In this article

The Start menu is the main gateway to your computer's programs, folders, and settings. It's called a menu because it provides a list of choices, just as a restaurant menu does. And as "start" implies, it's often the place that you'll go to start or open things.
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No one's mentioned OneNote? Shouldn't be surprised as it's the most overlooked piece of software in the world - but once you start to use it you'll soon be lost without it.
 
Darat said:
No one's mentioned OneNote? Shouldn't be surprised as it's the most overlooked piece of software in the world - but once you start to use it you'll soon be lost without it.
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I have tried it a few times but I didn't use it very often. I'm sure it would be good for lots of other people, though.
 
tyr_13 said:
What the hell does OneNote do?
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It's a program for keeping notes when you're organising something. It's better suited to doing this than a word processor because of some changes that make it more convenient for storing notes from a wide range of resources such as pictures, text, videos and audio. You can write anywhere on a page just by clicking there, you can go from page to page more easily since they're titled, there are different notebooks for different projects and lots of other things.
 
JJM 777 said:
But my iPhone really sucks...
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Everything you describe not being able to do is easily done. I haven't used a Mac since 1987, yet I managed to figure it all out without having to look it up.

Hint - get to know gestures (including the 2-figured variety :D) and you'll find life gets easier.

And don't forget to activate voice control so you can reassure your iphone that you truly love and worship Steve Jobs, and agree with his decision regarding Flash - <trance>which definitely isn't a reason not to buy the iPad 2 </trance>. If you don't start each and every day with a prayer to Steve, the phone won't work properly.
 
JJM 777 said:
But my iPhone really sucks. The scrolling bar on the right is only 33% of the width that would be comfortable to use with a human finger... simply annoying to struggle with the scroll bar all time. Also the horizontal scrolling bar of the main desktop is too narrow for human fingers.
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Surely this post was meant as a joke, but in the unlikely case it's not ...

There are no scroll bars on an iPhone. You scroll by dragging anywhere on the screen. The narrow indicators are just that - indicators for where you are on the page. And since they are not even visible until you start dragging, I can't see how anyone could think you must use them to scroll.

Then the phone app, OK you dial the number and the number pad disappears as the phone call starts... then some company numbers have a menu where you are asked to select 1 for service in English, 2 for service in French... Otherwise fine but my iPhone doesn´t show the number pad any more at that point, so the next thing you do is borrow someone else´s non-iPhone to call that company number.
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Yeah, that or maybe tap the button on the call screen marked with Keypad?

Next you want to silence the annoying sounds when locking or unlocking the key pad. How do you do that, without silencing everything else too, I still dunno.
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Settings / Sounds / Keyboard clicks perhaps?

Or cancel the pop-up screens that appear and wait for OK after every successfully sent SMS.
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Never seen that one.

Or modify the keypad layout when writing SMS to include your most used special characters on the screen at the same time, without rotating through 3 or in my case 5 different keypad layouts everytime when you need to type a character other than lowercase a-z.
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Tap and hold a letter button to get a popup with national variants. Or make sure you use the appropriate national keyboard. As for having e.g. numbers and letters at the same time - well there's only so much screen area available ...

I am not impressed to the least extent by the "developers" of this product.
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No, they failed to add mind reading and a do-what-I-mean-not-what-I-say mode to the software. Bad developers! Bad!
 
daSkeptic said:
Is that necessarily a problem?
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I'm assuming you're getting at the fact that you can stick Windows on a Mac, so no, it's not a problem. It does, however, have an impact if one of the primary reasons you buy and use a computer is for gaming.
 
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