Many of the corporate apps use a windows explorer shell. Windows explorer and Internet explorer are almost identical to each other. Except for some tiny text where one says windows explorer and one says internet explorer. Of course only the professors can have chrome or Firefox. At a glance, opened side by side the differences between IE and WE are minimal at best. They look identical. And before I turn on the app notepad or calculator or stocked they all have explorer icons in the dock. Of course I just learn the work around and that's to start each app to see what it is. Or try to remember the position.
Unfortunately not all NOM running app icons are different. Not in this corporate culture anyway. And of course no phones are allowed as they don't want me to take photos of credit card info. So alll I can do is explain. It seems that some apps require Internet to pull up web pages and some apps use intranet to pull up corporate pages and some web queries can pull either and both intra and inter. Maddening.
~Kris M.
~Kris M.
\\ "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //
LOL, I still don't get what you mean, a screwing would be good.Windows Explorer is Finder. Thats all it is. Most don't use it as its stuck away in Start-All Programs-Accessories-Windows Explorer. I pinned mine to the task bar as I lived in Windows Explorer.The app icons are all different, admittedly very plain compared to OS X."Click an app and it opens in a tab" Open an app and it opens, either full screen or the last windows size you had it on, and the last screen (if you use multi screens) you had it on. The app icon will also appear in the task bar, aka dock. So you may have 3 apps open, either full screen so you only see the on screen app, cascaded, or windows set so you see some or all apps. The icons are on the task bar so you can choose to bring that app up front if you have not set the windows to see the app. At work I have probably 8 apps running, including one IE app which I have 6 tabs. Two screens. Some windows are set t see them all the time, others I want full or fuller screen so i click the taskbar icon. The same must happen in OS X .I have a reverse question. In OSX, say I have 6 apps open. The active app is full screen, how do I access one other? Click the Dock app? Thats like clicking the task bar.NB. Im not trying to counter what you say, just trying to help your migration to Windows.
From: "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] OT: the windows operating system
All the apps I use. The ones I log into. Their start bar icon in the task bar thing is all windows explorer. It's all the same. Even the calculator. Then one though lol is a Java icon. I assume it's built wkth Java but it should have its own icon not the Java one. (In the words of my prof it's the coffee cup app) but that's just silly. I'm used to every app having its own icon. It seems this company or windows UI I am not certain which but they just don't care. I goto the start bar and click an app and it opens in a tab next to windows explorer and in the start bar err task bar I select that window of tabs by selecting an explorer icon. It's weird. To a Mac user anyway.
~Kris M.\\ "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller //Can you clarify, I don't understand what you mean.
From: "Just Murray krismurray@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
To: "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 10 November 2014 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [iPad] OT: the windows operating system
All the apps are built in it. Calculator is built in it. The proprietary apps all have shells that are identical to the internet explorer shell and in the dock they are so the same. It's frustrating. I'm used to dock icons being different. And bank on classic os there wasn't a dock.
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