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GOAL! ON CD, CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER 99/00 MACWORLD iBook MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS Win one! JANUARY 2000 JANUARY GAMES HALL OF FAME • QUARKXPRESS 4.1 • LASER PRINTERS • G4 MACS & UPGRADES • WEB TV WEB & UPGRADES • 4.1 • LASER PRINTERS • G4 MACS • QUARKXPRESS GAMES HALL OF FAME Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk Fun! Fun! Fun! The best games of the year G4 Power Macs QuarkXPress 4.1 & G4 upgrades Exclusive updater and 5-page tutorial Lasers tested 9 colour & mono printers read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief he Mac is great, because its once-innovative interface – the desktop Wastebasket becomes the Trash. For some dressing that hides all the ugly code – is intuitive and easy to use. unknown reason, the British are almost T Or rather, it’s more intuitive and easy to use than DOS was.The really inconsolable about its long-deserved demise. important part of the term ‘user interface’,however, is the word ‘user’ – an Readers will remember (December 1998) that interface is nothing without its users. By the same token, most businesses I personally pleaded with Peter Lowe, Apple’s director of worldwide product IT’S BEEN A TOP YEAR are nothing without users, either – Apple especially. marketing for the Mac OS, to waste the Wastebasket.The icon doesn’t look like Breaking things down further, the first part of the word ‘user’ is ‘u’. a wastebasket, and the long name is cumbersome when moving icons around. FOR MAC GAMERS, Sometimes ‘u’ is silent, as in ‘colour’,‘flavour’,etc.When pronounced, however,‘u’ Maybe, we need to re-investigate the whole notion of ‘desktop’ computing. 68 Do we need the metaphor any longer? Or is it now an integral part of the suddenly becomes ‘you’ - an entity Apple seems to have forgotten of late.The importance of ‘u’ and ‘you’ is that Apple looks very much like it has abandoned Mac’s legendary ‘personality’? Without it, would the Mac lose our love, and, FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF the pair of them over the last two months.Whether it has or not is irrelevant: later, custom? Adults are clever enough to aim dud docs at a ‘Delete’ icon; when trying to expand its market share, any company relies on what its and since when did children use a wasteba… trash can, anyway? MORE MIGHTY MAC GAMES actions ‘look like’ to its potential new users. Because the keyboard layout and dictionaries remain British, I personally In October, we learned that Apple had pulled out of its own and only UK can live with this new version of the Mac OS. But it clearly isn’t ideal. Potential THAN EVER. TAKE A TOUR Mac show. Exhibitors and customers alike – you, in other words – were up in new Apple customers – even borderline OS upgraders – will hear the Mac uses arms. Even Apple UK knew there was no excuse – it refused to issue a press American spellings, and turn to Windows – which hasn’t suddenly changed release, and did an ostrich impression while the complaints were flying. and alerted the world to its US bent. All this despite the fact that, apart from THROUGH OUR GAMES HALL Then, in November, Apple admitted that from Mac OS 9 onwards there the four missing ‘u’s and the Help Centre, OS 9 is just as fond of Blighty as would be no British-English version of the Macintosh operating system. Spell- Mohamed Al Fayed, Stuart Pearce and Mac OS 8.6. OF FAME – PACKED WITH check dictionaries and the UK keyboard layout are not affected; these are still I have questioned several key Apple managers on this issue. None could customizable to our quaint British ways. But, from now on, when we turn our answer, to my satisfaction, my query on how much time, effort or cash it would computers on,‘colour’ will be ‘color’ and ‘Favourites’ will be ‘Favorites’.The have taken to change those four misspellings. Apple says it gets us the OS REVIEWS OF THE TOP TITLES brave British ‘u’ is exiled from the Mac OS, never to be seen again. Maybe quicker, but très différent French, German and Japanese versions hardly Apple’s Internet search engine, Sherlock, will be renamed Columbo in OS X… trudged onto the shelves. This has wound a lot of Macworld readers up. See www.macworld.co.uk/ukos. What stings is not so much Apple’s switch – so minor that we can all surely I’d like to calm people’s nerves a little. Just how many times did pre-OS 9 live with it – as the way the company labels the “non-US” versions of its OS. versions of the operating system mention these now u-less words? In its There’s US-English and International-English, but the faux International English menus and dialogue boxes, Mac OS 8.6 mentions the word ‘colour’ just once is exactly the same as the US version (bar the dictionaries). On the whole, – where you chose your ‘Highlight Colour’ in the Appearance control panel. British-English is used by Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians, South Africans and If Apple had been clever, it would have changed this singular mention to the English-speaking citizens of most Commonwealth countries. ‘Highlight Shade’ or simply left the description as ‘Highlight’.No one would Surely, then, Brit-English is the true Int’l-English – not US English.Yes, have noticed that banishment of ‘u’.And ‘Favourites’ is mentioned a grand total Steve, Americans are in the minority on this one. So, regardless of how minor of three times anywhere on the Mac OS – and two of those are hidden in a a point the odd ‘color’ makes, this is another example of Apple failing to get pull-down in the Network Browser. its message across without upsetting its customers. Microsoft upsets the world It’s not all ‘u’,of course.The Help Centre will be redubbed the Help Center. – yet its users appreciate it. Apple today is getting too adept at upsetting its But that’s used even less than Balloon Help! Apple could have gone back to users, who once worshipped it. Apple has unwittingly made the whole trivial MW contents January calling it Help – again, no one would have noticed. And, horror of horrors, the issue into a war between them and us – or, in this case, us,‘u’s and the US. 77 82 91 95 107 online competition 46 107 competition WIN! 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