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Yesterday I was talking to a co-worker as I used my MacBook Air. She said that she had discussed Macs with her computer "expert" nephew who commented that "Macs are quite good, but it is so much easier to use Windows, everything is where where you can find it". This thought occurred to me. When I was growing up in England, we had the old currency, twelve pence in a shilling, twenty shillings in a pound, coins came in half, one, three and six pence, one, two, two and a half shillings etc etc. It all made sense to those who had grown up with it and we used it effortlessly. For some reason those pesky visitors could never understand something so utterly simple. Their hundred cents in a dollar seemed over simplified and designed for inferior intellects. Windows is like the old English currency. Computer "experts" who have used it for years think it is simple because it is familiar and often have difficulty understanding that what has become familiar to them is not necessarily the most straightforward for the newcomer.