I sent a file to someone — a Word document in Office 98 on the Macintosh — to a Windows user, without a file extension, and what they got was filename.dat and a non-descript file icon. All because the file didn’t have .doc attached. Why can’t the OS look at the file signature to see what it is?
FreeBSD knows what it is:
[/usr/home/paul]:: file filename
filename: Microsoft Office Document
OS X does, of course.
And can you drag the document icon to an application icon and get it opened that way? Of course not: you have to ask for and wait for the “Open with” dialog to open and then scroll (type the first character to get what you want? Fat chance) through the choices. And does the association get made for you? Does the OS ask if it can help you out for next time?
Pthpbbth. It’s always puzzled me that Mac users have been accused of being dependent on the mouse over the keyboard, but any reasonably Mac user knows you can do a lot without the mouse, from navigating through file lists to opening and closing applications and folder windows. Try that in the Leading Brand.