From: "Gary Britt" 

I was reacting mostly to the cartoonish style (compared to Win2K) icons
that were shown on the screenshots and used in XP.

Gary

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:29:28 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>  wrote:
>
> >Does Mac OS use more than a one button mouse yet?
>
> Yes, I plugged a wheel mouse into Anthony's laptop and was able to use
> both mouse buttons and the scroll wheel immediately.  The OS just
> accepted it and use it, without comment.
>
> >I went to that link and looked at a couple of screen shots.  Is it just
me
> >or does the Mac OS-X icons and backgrounds have the same kind of look and
> >feel as XP's interface went to??  Which was first XP or OS-X?
>
> It doesn't look or feel XP to me.
>
> XP's GUI was probably first, but I think OS/X is based on one of the
> BSD unixes, so it's guts have been around as long or longer than
> XP/NT.

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