Microsoft?

Oh okay!

Things OSX 10.5 cannot do:

Things OS X Cannot Do

Right Click to Create Text Files: You have to open TextEdit, create a file, navigate to the right folder, and save as…just to create a stupid file.

Set a picture as background: You certainly cannot select a picture in finder to set it as background. No app in OS X lets you do that. You have to use go through a long series of clicks in desktop background settings and manually find your file. The only other way is to open your image file in firefox and set as background, but having to open a a image from a browser to set it as background is lame.

Choose entire folders to be wallpapers: You can add a folder, but SUBFOLDERS ARE NOT INCLUDED. That means you can’t manually organize your wallpapesr. Again, iPhoto is useless for anything but photos, so unless all your wallpapers are photos, don’t expect iPhoto to be a solution.

Merging folders: (See a comment below for why you need to do this) When you copy a folder, if the new location contains a folder of the same name, there is no way to merge the folders. Instead, Finder overwrites the original folder with the new one. All files in the original folder are lost. The only way to get around this is to use the unix mv -v command….very user unfriendly design.

Cannot selectively delete trash: There is no way to delete one or several items in trash at a time. (useful when you want to double check the items one at a time before you actually delete them). You can only empty all the trash at once.

Cannot restore trash: If you accidentally moved something to trash by accident, there is no option to restore the file to its original location. You have to remember where it was. Why do you even need trash if you can’t even restore what you deleted to where it was? If you accidentally deleted a file buried deep in the filesystem, does it make sense to drag it back to….for example…Desktop??

There is no cut: There is no "cut" option like in all other OS. So to move a file you have navigate to the destination in a separate Finder window and drag to it, or drag while navigating in the same Finder window through many folders and hope you don’t miss.

Can’t calculate total size: When you select some files in a folder and right click -> Get Info to find the total size, Finder displays a box for EACH item with the individual sizes.
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mrk said:
Right Click to Create Text Files: You have to open TextEdit, create a file, navigate to the right folder, and save as…just to create a stupid file.
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Someone please point out when you create a text file in windows at which point you don't have to create a save location for it? - Never noticed it myself but like I say I don't know everything.


Set a picture as background: You certainly cannot select a picture in finder to set it as background. No app in OS X lets you do that. You have to use go through a long series of clicks in desktop background settings and manually find your file. The only other way is to open your image file in firefox and set as background, but having to open a a image from a browser to set it as background is lame.
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A long series of clicks? Lets count...1...2...to get to desktop background settings (which is one less than Windows from memory) (right click desktop then properties then display) Then just drag and drop the pic you want to be your background and et voila, it does it!

Choose entire folders to be wallpapers: You can add a folder, but SUBFOLDERS ARE NOT INCLUDED. That means you can’t manually organize your wallpapesr. Again, iPhoto is useless for anything but photos, so unless all your wallpapers are photos, don’t expect iPhoto to be a solution.
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I don't really understand this one, I've only ever seen people just have a 'wallpaper' folder, not wallpaper->females->red heads->over 40s->fappable kind of anal organisation :p - But each to their own! How it's an issue though...

Merging folders: (See a comment below for why you need to do this) When you copy a folder, if the new location contains a folder of the same name, there is no way to merge the folders. Instead, Finder overwrites the original folder with the new one. All files in the original folder are lost. The only way to get around this is to use the unix mv -v command….very user unfriendly design.
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No it doesn't it asks you what you want to do, either Stop or Replace, you'd have to be pretty thick to overwrite your own important files when it already pre-warns you about doing it.

Cannot selectively delete trash: There is no way to delete one or several items in trash at a time. (useful when you want to double check the items one at a time before you actually delete them). You can only empty all the trash at once.
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I'll give you that :) - Normally though when I put stuff in my Trash can I empty it all in one go rather than going through and removing stuff individually :p

Cannot restore trash: If you accidentally moved something to trash by accident, there is no option to restore the file to its original location. You have to remember where it was. Why do you even need trash if you can’t even restore what you deleted to where it was? If you accidentally deleted a file buried deep in the filesystem, does it make sense to drag it back to….for example…Desktop??
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That's rubbish, you can restore it using Time Machine :)

There is no cut: There is no "cut" option like in all other OS. So to move a file you have navigate to the destination in a separate Finder window and drag to it, or drag while navigating in the same Finder window through many folders and hope you don’t miss.
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Again true, but you'd have to be dim to waste time on going through each folder manually, Mac OS does have Spotlight allowing you to open any folder instantly then dragging and dropping, saving buckets of time :)

Can’t calculate total size: When you select some files in a folder and right click -> Get Info to find the total size, Finder displays a box for EACH item with the individual sizes.
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Another one thats annoying, but I've never found it a problem :)


Things OSX 10.5 cannot do:
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Written by someone who clearly hates OSX and nit picked at silly things :)
 
The wallpaper "folder" big is in relation to Having a folder (maybe called Wallpapers) and in that folder having different wallpaper categories for example so when you tell Windows to look at "Wallpapers" you have the option to use all wallpapers in that folder including subfolders so Windows cycle them at your chosen interval. Pretty good if you're in a happy mood or whatever and just want to cycle certain backgrounds or something.

As for the text file bit, you just right click > new > text file then open it and add your text or whatever content then close the window saving changes. Easy.

The same goes for any other common filetype as well.

Some of those aren't silly things to have anyway, total filesize of a bunch of selected files is pretty important for a start.
 
I like how 'high user aspirations' includes spending enough time noodling around with your wallpaper that the number of clicks matters :D

The rest of the complaints are specifically about Finder. I agree that it is unnecessarily simplified when it comes to cut and merge, but you can restore trash (right click) and get total size (cmd-opt-i).
 
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As for the text file bit, you just right click > new > text file then open it and add your text or whatever content then close the window saving changes. Easy.
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but its the same in OSX! :p - cmd+space type textedit edit hit enter, add content/text, save! done! :p

Some of those aren't silly things to have anyway, total filesize of a bunch of selected files is pretty important for a start.
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I didn't say the total filesize thing wasn't important or was silly :) - I said it's annoying and agreed about the point being made out :)
 
Re: Text - Ah I see!

My Max experience is limited and somewhat isolated to within MS Exchange connectivity due to my last 2 workplaces having /some/ Mac users in the environment so we had to administer for them as well as painful as it was!

Most recently our Mac machines (dual quad G5s) were being used with Vista installed solely for virtual machine usage and GIS mapping conversions!
 
mrk said:
Oh okay!

Things OSX 10.5 cannot do:

Things OS X Cannot Do

Right Click to Create Text Files: You have to open TextEdit, create a file, navigate to the right folder, and save as…just to create a stupid file.
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Maybe not. But if you really need to create a text file quickly. Start typing (in a browser address field, open Spotlight or any other text area) select the text and drag it to the folder you want the text file to be created in and et voila.

mrk said:
Set a picture as background: You certainly cannot select a picture in finder to set it as background. No app in OS X lets you do that. You have to use go through a long series of clicks in desktop background settings and manually find your file. The only other way is to open your image file in firefox and set as background, but having to open a a image from a browser to set it as background is lame.
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No one using a Mac changes their background, the default is way too good. :p

mrk said:
Choose entire folders to be wallpapers: You can add a folder, but SUBFOLDERS ARE NOT INCLUDED. That means you can’t manually organize your wallpapesr. Again, iPhoto is useless for anything but photos, so unless all your wallpapers are photos, don’t expect iPhoto to be a solution.
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See above.

mrk said:
Merging folders: (See a comment below for why you need to do this) When you copy a folder, if the new location contains a folder of the same name, there is no way to merge the folders. Instead, Finder overwrites the original folder with the new one. All files in the original folder are lost. The only way to get around this is to use the unix mv -v command….very user unfriendly design.
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Never needed to do that while using Windows of OS X, so no great loss to me. The only thing I can think of where this might be useful is developing applications, but then you'd just use Subversion or something similar.

mrk said:
Cannot selectively delete trash: There is no way to delete one or several items in trash at a time. (useful when you want to double check the items one at a time before you actually delete them). You can only empty all the trash at once.
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You can delete one file, multiple files or all files at once from the Trash. Can't ask for more than that.

mrk said:
Cannot restore trash: If you accidentally moved something to trash by accident, there is no option to restore the file to its original location. You have to remember where it was. Why do you even need trash if you can’t even restore what you deleted to where it was? If you accidentally deleted a file buried deep in the filesystem, does it make sense to drag it back to….for example…Desktop??
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Yes you can. :)

mrk said:
There is no cut: There is no "cut" option like in all other OS. So to move a file you have navigate to the destination in a separate Finder window and drag to it, or drag while navigating in the same Finder window through many folders and hope you don’t miss.
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You're still navigating to the same folder when you're cutting a file, so you're not saving any time, compared to dragging a file to the specified folder in OS X.

mrk said:
Can’t calculate total size: When you select some files in a folder and right click -> Get Info to find the total size, Finder displays a box for EACH item with the individual sizes.
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Can't argue with that.
 
The thing that does it for me is games. I have only used OSX a bit at work and it was all right if a little awkward, but that could just be me being used to Windows. However at home I could never have it on my gaming rig and I am not going to dual boot just because OSX is better for non gaming. It can't be that much better for the effort of rebooting.

So until games work on Macs somehow it isn't happening for me. Either DirectX needs to work or they need to make games for Macs using OpenGL or whatever.

And as much as I like to support the under dog just for the sake of it, it isn't easy when Apple are as bad if not more "unethical" in their business practices than Microsoft.
 
The underdog?

They oversized the iPhone and called it the iPad for god's sake :p
 
digipeep said:
I think that is where Microsoft's strength lies in office applications, they are **** at Operating Systems. MS Word, MS Excel. I just wonder if they will go the way of WordPerfect and WordStar in a few years time.
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. . . or Lotus, Ashton-Tate, VisiCorp and Digital Research?

It beggars belief that people shell out the vast fortunes they do for MS Office when they could have OpenOffice and Thunderbird for free - but there you go . . . I believe that people were once expected to pay for Netscape :confused:
 
MS Office doesn't cost a "fortune" and the majority of IT related businesses can get it at discounted rates anyway as well as students who get it even cheaper and employees of said businesses.

Also MS offer the security and support with their product - businesses need this and open source software doesn't fall into the authorised software category for IT admin teams across the world for use on company machines.
 
I think Microsoft do a pretty good job overall.

There must be an infinate number of variations in terms of PC hardware, chipset, processor, ram, graphics cards, soundcards, i/o ports etc and yet when I install a Microsoft OS it all works.

It's amazing really.

I like Linux but it doesn't yet have this ability.
 
Im gonna stick with my argument that both windows and OSX have their pro's and con's, but at the end of the day it all comes down to user preference.
 
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