What did the task bar do that wasn't already done on the Apple Mac menu bar? Show running apps? Covered. Advise you of modem connection status? covered? Provide quick links to specific programs? covered. Provide a clock and calendar? yup, covered.
You like the task bar approach... others perfer the menu bar. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
>> What did the task bar do that wasn't already done on the Apple Mac menu bar?<<
You're joking, right?
>>Show running apps? Covered.<<
Huh? Without moving your mouse?
Try using Alt-TAB in Mac 7 and see what happens. That was available in 3.0.
>>others perfer the menu bar<<
I don't buy that. Mac users, if they were honest, would have liked that feature. Still would.
At least be honest. There were a lot of great things about the Mac, and still are. But it doesn't have to be better than Windows in every single instance for you or anyone else to justify using it. In fact, you don't have to justify it.
Mac folks need to get over their inferiority complex with respect to Windows. If Mac is so great, use it. People tend to buy great products. There's no need for Mac folks to constantly post how the Mac is so great and how Windows sucks. They are tools, just like my nutdriver set and my set of ratchets and sockets.