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

[Glenn Carnagey]

On Feb 3, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Rosyna wrote:

> 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.

To be fair, the early Microsoft Mac apps did help to standardize the  
first top mac app menus and menu items as we know them today.   
earliest versions of Word/Excel/File.  I remember them more as being  
among the participants in the process, but whatever.  The tearing  
tragedy (IMO) was how wonderfully simple and easy to use they were,  
compared to their behemoth descendents, far more productive and  
efficient.  really sad.

g./




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