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To: Doren who wrote (63649)	4/26/2007 4:30:13 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

This is not a petty reason. However, I don't find this (inability to make text selection) to be a problem with XP or Vista. I do copy-paste all the time. Now, I don't know how much better it is on a mac. I used a mac in 1989 once - and gave up on it in favor of Unix machines. I thought that Unix was way more geek friendly than the mac. I couldn't use the floppy easily on the mac in 1989. Sun/Berkeley Unix was so much easier! Office 2007 allows you save docs as PDFs. Adobe must have worked with Apple to embed PDF support in the macs. I am sure that Microsoft wouldn't do that - and Adobe might sue them if they try to do it.

To: Doren who wrote (63649)	4/26/2007 9:58:33 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

thats what drives me nuts about MS word (text selection). Ever tried to just select ONE WORD in MS word? it tries to think for you and man is it annoying.

To: Doren who wrote (63649)	4/27/2007 11:30:43 AM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 213177

Making a text selection. >Making a text selection. I bet what you are noticing is the very different mouse acceleration settings between OSX and Windows. In OSX, the mouse is much more sensitive to speed-- if you move the mouse slowly, the mouse moves slower, but if you sweep it quickly across your mouse pad (or analogously, quickly on the notebook track pad), the cursor flies across the screen. The thinking is that gives you more precision when working slowly, but you can still cover a lot of ground when moving quickly. Windows does this too (by default) to a certain extent, but there is much less difference between the slow and fast mapped mouse speeds. You are probably more used to the precision that OSX gives you. Personally, it drives me nuts to switch back and forth between the Windows method and the OSX method, especially on trackpads (OSX is less sensitive when using external mice and therefore more Windows-like). In fact, I couldn't stand using my Macbook in OSX until I discovered Sidetrack, a utility that lets you configure the mouse acceleration settings in OSX. You can choose between the OSX trackpad setting, the OSX mouse setting, or "Redmond settings."