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This website's bizarre mix of imitation and over-explaining reminds me of some earnest but vacuous manual for a foreign knock-off product.

"Press the File menu," I expect it to say, "and a beautiful pull-down fades quickly into view, with useful functions such as New Folder and Close."

Too bad Apple patented calling an address book "Address Book," I guess they'll just have to do their best with nonsense names.

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> Too bad Apple patented calling an address book "Address Book,"

Are you joking? I didn't think that was possible, it's too generic and I couldn't find anything on Google regarding the matter.

Yeah, it was a joke, though maybe too close to the realm of possibility.

In the good old days, Microsoft would have called it "Microsoft Address Book", waited a few years, then started suing people for using the term "Address Book". More recently, they'd have called it "My Address Book" and then changed it back to "Address Book" in Vista, breaking applications that expected to find "My Address Book". And the 32-bit version would be in "Program Files x86" because it's really important to segregate applications by their bitness.

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