How about the ability to “Maximize” a window? And don’t give me a redefinition of “Maximize” Maximize means to take up the maximum amount of workspace and does not mean: let’s resize the window to what Apple or the app thinks you want it to be.

Now there is nothing in windows that I like better than OSX!

Are you serious? Just try right-click or control-clic on the trash and choose “emply trash” !

Great comment

One thing related to your last tip that was introduced in one of the last updates to Tiger, in a new iMac my girlfriend bought, the default key is CMD, not Control . .. interesting .. I wonder why. If anyone can explain this

I manage a network of 205 Macs, 73 PCs, 34 Linux or equivilent.

Macs- little or no maintainence, easy fast upgrades to all via networking.
I manage all the above workstatiions via a Master Mac workstation. No security issues (thats zero) on Macs and thats why the U.S. Government uses them. Long hardware and software life (years not months, oldest is 7 years old).

PC’s – I spend 85% of my time managing these workstations. Security upgrades nightmare, patches, software re-installs. I manage all the patches, upgrades via the Mac. Short hardware and software life.

Linux – Used for scientific applications. Managed via Mac. Same security concerns as PC’s.

So, If I lived in a perfect world, I would melt every PC and Linux machine down and use it for new pedestals for even more New Macs.

Everything said that a Mac can’t do…it does. You just have to know the correct key combo’s.

Example:

Moving from one button to another on a dialog box (yes, no or cancel).
As stated in by another can’t be done on a Mac without useing a mouse.
Wrong. Use the TAB key and hit enter to jump from anything on a Mac. I’ve use a mac without any mouse connected whatsoever. You can also go into Mac System Preferences: Universal Access and enable the above as the default. Not to mention in same System Preference: enlarging mouse pointer (great if your eyes need reading glasses for anything small”, enableing speech commands, and a number of other interesting user interface options.

Tip of the day: enlarge anything on your screen for viewing with zoom command. Requires mouse with scroll.

Hold down CONTROL key while scrolling mouse. You can move side to side or up and down, and even center the scroll by selecting correct settings in System Preferences. Screen Maintains same resolution (so no huge pixels). Also allows auto scroll of screen when you move the mouse. Does Windows do this? Great way to view small movies or small objects on your screen. I use this feature to watch MLB games on my screen in full screen (better then using “fill the screen” features in most players).

I never said it’s doesn’t have Duplicate…

@ Dave

Thank you!

@ Michael

lol now you’re showing me how to copy and paste in a screencast…

Dude. Press CMD + X – (X like in Mac OS X) . not C like in Copy me . . and then press CMD + V (v is for virus) in another folder. See if the file moves from one folder to the other. I don’t think so.

This is a Finder problem only. It works in all other Mac applications (such as any text editor)..

Now … do something about that screencast.

Of course anyone with two brain cells can figure out this kind of thing happens, but that doesn’t mean companies want to condone it by talking about it publicly.

I’ll be the first to admit, let’s hope I’m wrong; and if I’m not wrong, let’s hope the microsoft thought police don’t frequent applegazette. Or wherever Mike’s source happens to be.

anymore!?

I didn’t “leak” anything. There’s nothing secret about Microsoft employees looking at what the competition does or comparing what we’ve done to what they’ve done. Enough people read FSJ that if anyone cared, I’d have heard about it by now. Believe me, I’m not new to this =)

And none of what I posted was about “copying.” Apparently some (like the author of this post) read it that way. Of course it’s inevitable that two competing operating systems are going to implement some similar functionality. And it goes both ways. You may not want to admit it, but Leopard stole a ton of things from Vista (basically everything in Spotlight for one – using it as an app launcher, searching other machines, AQS, previews, etc).

Comparing the steps to complete a task, such as (not a real one, just an example) “Creating a new folder, searching for files, and copying them into the new folder,” can be a useful exercise and reality check. I am certain some teams at Apple take similar steps.

@Terrin

It makes me uneasy to think how many people fall for such shallow ‘features’ over real innovation and things that matter. There is probably no technical reason for Apple not to implement virtually any GUI feature that Windows has, only if they spent their precious time on frivolous junk like that, we would have another Microsoft. Also take into consideration the amount of work Apple has done on a relatively young OS (I think) in an immense ecosystem of users with diverse needs like scientists, teachers, media professionals, students, and general users. Oh and all the hardware engineering also.

BTW I have been using Windows since ’97 and Mac since March ’06

Actually, you are totally right, you cannot cut and paste a file in Finder as of 10.5.2 like you can in Windows (as of forever).

@ Michael (and others) – He’s not talking about copying (i.e. Apple-C Apple-V, that works, but that is a copy,it leaves the original where it was), he’s talking about moving a file using keyboard shortcuts…

I agree, that would be a very nice feature, and one that is used all the time. I had a beta of Leopard and what is interesting is that Apple did implement the Del key to delete files from the finder, but took it out again. I’d love to see that put back…

To be honest, for me there is little Windows has that I would like to see in Finder. Cut and Paste,

There are shortcuts for some of those dialogs. Escape usually acts as a cancel. In Save / Don’t Save dialogs, Command-D usually maps to Don’t Save.

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That said, one feature I love about Windows is the ability to navigate any menu from the keyboard by just using the Alt key and pressing the underlined letter of the menu command. The great thing about this feature is that one doesn’t have to remember the command combinations for such menus. I think this is helpful in situations when using the mouse is not desired.

I’m not saying Windows’s implementation of this feature is great. The concept is good, but I’m sure Apple can do better implementation.