Because that's what my desktop has on it
Apparently, Microsoft has discovered something revolutionary: the traditional Windows Desktop sucks. I’m not talking about the Windows metaphor or any other such nonsense; I’m talking about the actual ‘desktop’ for Windows 2000 and below. What they’ve found is that the bulk of their users (beginners) don’t understand that desktop and are afraid of it, but only use 3-4 applications in a single session, making for frustration and ‘failure’ because theoretically the desktop should be the place they use to hold links to those applications. And I can only think that this has come about because they totally copied the Mac desktop metaphor, only wrong. Instead of actual icons representing actual things that actual actions can be taken upon, they instead decided to use the desktop as a space for shortcuts to documents, applications and ‘My Computer.’ Have you ever tried to make an alias to a directory and put THAT on the Windows desktop? You can’t do it, at least not in Windows 98. It was Microsoft’s choice to ignore Apple’s desktop ideas and come up with their own… like the idea of using a seperate application from the ‘desktop’ to access your hard drive and filesystem. So they’ve now found that their idea didn’t work. Duh.
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huh?!?
It’s really not that complicated….
It can’t be too hard to use, seeing as only, what, 5% of users are mac. I continually use both for design and find each to be just as annoying as the other in different repsects. And I would much rather develop on a PC rather than stare at that stupid bubble interface of OSX
Yeah, every OS can be annoying, but really M$ hasn’t done anything innovative…ever. I use both OS’s but OSX is a dream for php/mysql/apache development….hands down, no question. To sit at a client’s office and tweak a DB/php form is a dream.
To me using W2K or XP is like have sex with my sister. It’s sex, but…
erm… huh? i can’t make a shortcut on my win98 desktop to directories on my hard disk? i dunno bout you, but i’ve got about 10 of those. and i’m on win98. double-click, and they open that directory.
Or were you talking about novice users not finding out how to make shortcuts?
I don’t know, php/mysql run perfectly fine on Win systems, AND they have installers that don’t require you to edit obscure configuration files. I got my php/mysql up in less than 2 minutes, whereas OSX took me significantly longer.
huh?!?
It’s really not that complicated….
It can’t be too hard to use, seeing as only, what, 5% of users are mac. I continually use both for design and find each to be just as annoying as the other in different repsects. And I would much rather develop on a PC rather than stare at that stupid bubble interface of OSX
Yeah, every OS can be annoying, but really M$ hasn’t done anything innovative…ever. I use both OSs but OSX is a dream for php/mysql/apache development .hands down, no question. To sit at a clients office and tweak a DB/php form is a dream. To me using W2K or XP is like have sex with my sister. It’s sex, but…
erm… huh? i can’t make a shortcut on my win98 desktop to directories on my hard disk? i dunno bout you, but i’ve got about 10 of those. and i’m on win98. double-click, and they open that directory.
Or were you talking about novice users not finding out how to make shortcuts?
I don’t know, php/mysql run perfectly fine on Win systems, AND they have installers that don’t require you to edit obscure configuration files. I got my php/mysql up in less than 2 minutes, whereas OSX took me significantly longer.