On 2014-06-13, 11:48 AM, mark lewis -> Sean Dennis wrote:

 ml> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Sean Dennis wrote to TOM WALKER:

 TW>> Well MS did not offer an Upgrade veersion like they did for Win
 TW>> 95/98/ME/Vista, Which was my point early in this thread. And as
 TW>> you said above there is a "Stop Gap" measure but
requires jumping
 TW>> through some hoops instead of simply instaling an MS "Upgrade"
 TW>> Disk.

 SD>> Microsoft doesn't make things easy if they don't have to. :)

 ml> that's funny! especially in light of the GUI was supposed to dumb things
 ml> down enough for the average joe to be able to use a computer reliably ;)

While computers remain more difficult in 'real' life than one might imagine
watching TV commercials, GUIs brought about a major increase in usability.

Think back to, say, the late 1980s - a typical MS-DOS user would know
enough to be able to start up Word Perfect or Lotus 1-2-3, and to make use
of that single application - typically helped by a command cheat-sheet
taped to their keyboard (around the F-keys perhaps).

Now the cheat-sheets are (mostly) gone and folks are able to use (perhaps)
3-4 programs: a browser, an email program, and MS Word.

And it's now relatively straightforward to quit a program (though new Mac
users typically minimize programs by mistake thinking they've quit them)...
I remember telling folks that the key Word Perfect command to memorize was
F7 to quit.

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