Moving between Macintosh and Windows

Article – From the horse’s mouth

Use these resources together if you are working both Windows systems and the Apple Macintosh.

Microsoft

Making The Switch: MacBook to Microsoft Surface Book

Apple

My Comments

Increasingly Windows computers have reached or eclipsed the kind of aesthetic and stability calibre associated with Apple’s Macintosh computers especially the MacBook portable-computer family.

But a person who works on the Apple Macintosh platform will typically find it hard to move their computing life over to a Windows-based computer. This situation may also be of use for anyone who is working a “multi-platform” environment where they maintain a Macintosh and a Windows-based computer.

Microsoft’s article is focused on their new Surface Book but the instructions apply more or less to anyone who is moving from MacOS X to Windows 10 or a Mac user who is wanting to be familiar with the new Windows 10 operating system or know how it works.

Apple does provide similar resources for people who are used to the Windows platform moving towards the Macintosh platform ever since people moved from Windows because of Windows Vista.

Most of the basic keyboard shortcuts are:

	Apple	Windows
Undo	Command-Z	Ctrl-Z
Select All	Command-A	Ctrl-A
Cut	Command-X	Ctrl-X
Copy	Command-C	Ctrl-C
Paste	Command-V	Ctrl-V
Save this document	Command-S	Ctrl-S
Print this document	Command-P	Ctrl-P
Refresh Webpage / screen	Command-R	Ctrl-R or F5
Switch between open programs	Command-Tab	Alt-Tab
Hide current program	Command-H Command-M (Minimise)	Windows-(Down Arrow)
Hide all programs	Command-(Mission Control)	Windows-M
Stop current program	Command-Q	Alt-F4
Force a program to stop	Command-Option-Esc