MacOS is app centric and Windows is document-centric, in large part because of the differences in window management. MacOS window management encourages users to

MacOS is app centric and Windows is document-centric, in large part because of the differences in window management. MacOS window management encourages users to focus on which app is open, leading to users talking about apps rather than documents (I made it in Keynote, Pages, or Numbers). Windows windows management encourages users to focus on which document is open, leading to users talking about documents rather than apps (it's a Word Doc, an Excel Sheet, a PowerPoint Deck). The difference is subtle but significant. If you're a long time MacOS user, you can't imagine not just knowing what app your document/window is hosted in. If you're a long time Windows user, you can't imagine mentally sorting your windows by which app launched them. This difference almost certainly has its roots back in the dawn of the original Macintosh, which could only run one application at a time and context-switching or Multi-Tasking had to be explicitly added to the OS after the fact[0]. Windows, which was developed later, was designed as an inherently multi-application OS from the beginning. Today, it's pretty much only in the windows management where you still see the vestiges of those original differences. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder