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There are a number of people complaining about the tabs in Safari 4 being at the top of the window. Well, I like them at the top of the window.

I like the extra space, and the truth is that space is basically wasted otherwise. I think people just don’t handle change well. You wouldn’t think something like browser tabs would create a “Who Moved My Cheese?” moment for so many people, but it does.

When I worked at Microsoft this was always an issue. People would freak out if you changed stuff, even if you made it better. So Microsoft, being lame, would either not change, or kind of try to do both, but do both poorly. This is why Vista sucked. This is why there are now both alt-tab and windows-tab that basically do the same thing.

People don’t realize it, but they created Vista. Their own resistance to change creates all sorts of problems in their life. I’m glad Apple is willing to change, it means hopefully it will take longer for their products to become crap. If you are one of these people who whines whenever the user interface changes, or you cry every time a new OS is released and isn’t exactly the same as the last OS, you are the problem.

So write your scripts and do whatever you can to run from change. But eventually, change is gonna get you, so maybe just start learning to deal with it.