Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

Rosyna rosyna at unsanity.com
Sat Feb 3 09:56:59 PST 2007


AFAICT, PARC has popup menus. The Mac team invented pull down menus. 
Popup being the kind you see inside windows. Pull down being the kind 
at the top of the menu bar.

Ack, at 2/2/07, Tom M.Blenko said:

>>Who *did* invent the File/Edit/etc. menu convention?  Obviously it 
>>was burned into the Mac long before Windows existed.  But did the 
>>convention exist in Microsoft text-based programs before the Mac? 
>>Did it exist at PARC?
>
>Yes, more or less. It wasn't standardized (or sort-of standardized) 
>across applications.

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