Has the author used Windows before? Or just read about it?
"most Windows users are familiar with the need to navigate to applications or preferences by clicking a Start button and following a concourse of menus. Not so in OS X, which makes application access as easy as performing a simple gesture."
The middle finger?
Just kidding, but seriously, its just in a different menu, its still the same between Windows and Mac. And when you have 1000's of programs installed, the Start menu suddenly makes sense.
"Windows users are typically accustomed to purchasing software applications in a box or surfing a variety of manufacturer Web sites to load programs"
Windows users are also accustomed to feeling like they own the software, not renting it, and that there is a reasonable chance that their 15 year old program will still work.
"Users new to the Mac should also be given an overview, if brief, explaining how OS X is powered by UNIX, an OS widely held to be a more stable, more reliable, and more secure code base than is found in Windows. "
Powered by BSD, not UNIX, and no user actually cares.
.dmg files, LOL, "Find and run the damage file".
What other common commands are you talking about? CLi commands?
"you can show them how to open Safari, Apples stand-in for Internet Explorer. Most Web browser-accessed, cloud-based applications are compatible with Safari."
How come Apple doesn't get sued for this? Microsoft did.
"quires Mac users to open Finder (found on the Dock), click Go, select Go To Server, enter the host address (such as smb://FS01 or smb://192.168.1.2) into the Server Address field, and click Connect. Theyll be asked to enter an authorized username and password to connect to the target share. "
Wow... just wow, obviously Windows does this better as its Native, but Even in Ubuntu and Mint, you just click network and it shows you your windows machines and opens the shares. A normal user is expected to know how to do this on a Mac?
"Most users now know just to tap an application to select, access, and open the program. Apple brings such functionality to the computer desktop via Launchpad. Using a simple gesture (three fingers down and thumb up) on an Apple Trackpad or clicking Launchpad opens the OS X app. Each application appears as a single icon on the full screen display. Users just need to click an icon to launch the application. While the feature is now old hat for Mac users, Windows users (other than those whove already adopted Windows 8) will be unfamiliar with the practice on a laptop or desktop computer."
The only unfamiliar feature is the strange mouse crap you had to do, you might as well have the user tap their heels and repeat, "There is no place like email, there is no place like email, there is no place like email" to open their email app, its about as intuitive.
Did you know in Windows (and most Nix distros) you can just click on that pictographic representation of the application and it opens.
"Whereas Windows printer installation can test even the most seasoned technicians patience"
I think it really only tests the authors patience, anyone with two brain cells rubbing together and figure out how to right click a printer in the list and choose connect.
