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Subject:RE: RE: RE: Mac vs PC users From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:17:24 -0800
I think the thing that probably saved MS on this point was the number or times a user clicks on "Start" during a session. By the time you want to shut down the system, you've seen "turn off computer" go by so many times that it has burned its location into your brain.
I never used the drag-to-can method of ejecting discs on my Mac Plus, but stuck to the "eject disc" menu command. There was always a nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that one day the system was going to take that trash can analogy seriously.
Gene Kim-Eng
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On 7/6/2010 6:06 PM Dan Goldstein wrote:
Dragging a disc to a trash can in order to eject it is just as counterintuitive as pressing "Start" in order to turn something off.
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