Business and enterprise software, and other applications that help a business run

I have had almost no problems getting used to the user interface. To be fair, I have used a lot of operating systems, so your mileage may vary. But I cannot imagine anyone having a really hard time learning to speak fluent OS X. There are, of course, a couple of small things. There always are. Windows users are used to having both a delete and a backspace key. The MacBook has only a delete key, and that key acts like a backspace key. I still occasionally fumble with that.

Windows users are also used to having their application menus in the top bar of their applications. Instead, OS X has a single application menu, at the top of the screen. This is the only obvious place where the OS X user interface misses the boat. Especially when you are using two monitors, this means you have to spend way too much time moving the mouse. Meanwhile, the bar at the top of the application itself is both almost empty and almost useless, save for round buttons used to control the application window itself. Everybody gets one design error, and this is the one that OS X chose, I suppose.

There have certainly been other small things, but you quickly forget them. An example would be the window controls for close, minimize, and maximize. In OS X, they are circles instead of squares, and they are at the upper left instead of the upper right. After a few days of using OS X, it was Windows that felt wrong. Some things are just different, but you quickly get used to them.

Tomorrow: Playing nicely with others.