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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