Is the Save Button Obsolete?

Luther Blissett asks: "I've wondered this for awhile now: why do we still have a Save button? Why isn't it always automatic? Why isn't 'Save As' called 'Name and File'? I understand that in ancient history, when Save was a hit on system resources (e.g. when saving to your 5.25 inch floppy disk), we might give control to the user. Also, the average user then was probably more technically adept (out of necessity) and knew the difference between RAM and storage. But now? Why?"

Re:since day one

[Vaevictis666]

I think Macs get away with just using the (apple icon) menu. Anyone else could really substitude the File menu with an Application menu that had slightly wordier items in it. File->Save would be Application->Save Document, File->Exit would be Application->Exit, etc.

As an added benefit of making that change, one could move the "standard" Tools->Options into Application->Options (or Preferences) and stick it next to the typical Print, Printer Setup, Page Setup menu items.