Any casual computer history fan will know that the desktop computing metaphor sprang from Xerox PARC in the 1970s, and the great leap of insight it embodies is taking one model of working that people ...

Most people reading this post will have used computers most of their lives. This is not just true of so-called digital natives born in the post smartphone era. It's also true of people like me. I was ...

There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but think of it this way: When the Mac first came out, no one had really used a GUI before. The "desktop" metaphor allowed people to <I>intuitively</I> grasp ...