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See the New Vista Features Demonstrated by Mac OS X

maclive.net — A video using the audio of Microsoft's keynote speech at the 2006 CES, as well as portions of the Vista demo. However, this video substitutes Vista footage with footage of Mac OS X's equivalent features. The result is pretty funny.

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  • Mediaright, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0funny.
  • ZHmike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Watch the follow-up video that is linked at the bottom of the article as well. Funny stuff
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Amusing but not really very revealing. There is a lot going into Vista that isn't available on OS X and to be fair, there is a lot in OS X that wont be available in Vista.

    I'm not a big fan of knocking either OS, competition is a good thing for the customer so the more choice we have, the better. What I will find interesting is when Vista launches, comparing the features, usability, speed and so on. There are going to be a lot of people doing that. It's just too early to really see Vista doing what it will do in the final release.
  • 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2What? Vista stole the concept of a desktop and a mouse pointer from OSX? That's horrible!

    /get a life Mac fanboys
  • TWiTarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1those are both hillarious!

    does anyone know where i can see the microsoft ces keynote in something besides wmp? (wmp sucks for mac).
  • replica, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The same video could be made with FrontRow and Media Center. FrontRow copied Media Center.
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Except Media Center smokes FrontRow in a water cooled pipe. I really liked FrontRow, dont get me wrong. It just has a long way to go before it even touches the functionality and usability of Media Center 2005.
  • andrewr, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Oh if only I could have a MAC because I just love the interface and the awesome features, oh but wait! None of my favorite applications will run on a MAC!! Argh what should I do? Oh wow look at the new Windows Vista OS coming out! It's just like OSX and it runs all my favorite WINDOWS apps!! Hooray microsoft saves the day again!
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I used to use the favourite app argument but it is getting harder to use. OS X has most bases covered well. Industry standard stuff is there and if you have common or not so common tasks to perform, the software equivilents are there too. Still, I'd die if I couldn't have my Adobe Audition.

    I also think its a pretty weak argument andrew to say Microsoft is coming out with x in the future. We could all just sit and wait endlessly for more impressive tech on the horizon. There comes a point that you just have to take the plunge and deal with what is out and workable now.
  • lotusleaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You know what's also funny is the video where Gates is displayed on a giant screen behind Jobs.

    Devils may appear in different colors and shapes, but they still reach out to high five one another when it comes to money.
  • esac, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Thank you mac fanboys for pointing out yet again that microsoft is ripping features from OSX. So continues the never ending cycle. Everybody steals from everybody. Get over it.

    video may be funny but not worth front page.

    no digg.
    reported lame.
  • OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Coral just seeded it:

    http://www.maclive.net.nyud.net:8090/sid/134
  • arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...

    Damn Digg.
    Site Killer.
  • Red_Cloak, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Would be hilarious if people actually used OS X 10. :)
  • hotwaterham, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5As I said in another thread:

    This video doesn't put forward a single valid point.

    Vista's visual theme looks and acts nothing like OS X's "steel and jellybeans" theme. The Windows file browser and Finder are drastically different. Flip 3D is more akin to Alt-Tab than Expose. The taskbar in Vista shows live previews of EVERY window when you mouse over its name while the OS X dock only show live previews of minimized windows. Alt-Tab has been injected with the same instant-live-preview functionality (of course, this was available in XP through a Microsoft plug-in, but no one really uses it)...this is not present in the OS X application switching interface. The Sidebar, and accompanying gadgets, are Microsoft's take on the Konfabulator engine (I hate to break it to you but Apple didn't invent or popularize widgets, gadgets, or whatever else you want to call these mini-applications).

    That covers everything mentioned in that video.
  • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Let's see: Windows rips off MacOS, Linux GUIs rip off Windows. Who is Apple ripping off?

    Their customers. Heh.
  • jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WindowssuxMacSuxLinuxSuxWindowsRulesMacRulesLinuxRules.

    That just about sums up 75% of the last week's comments associated with any post about any platform. Can we please move on?
  • RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.itheaterproject.com/ should be a kickass media centre for OSX
  • orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anyone have an alternate url.

    site is hosed
  • ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Coral just seeded it:

    http://www.maclive.net.nyud.net:8090/sid/134"

    doesn't work anymore :/
  • AjaxDiggz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4*****. As is the Coral link. Nothing to see here folks, let's all just move along.
  • Zonkzor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Who really cares anymore who copies who? Apple and MS and both big companies with lots of money duking it out. If Apple would have won the OS race back in the day and we all had Macs sitting on our desktops they would act just as monopolistic as Microsoft. The nature of the operating system business makes it essential.

    Apple is not our friend. They can handle themselves. Lets just sit back and enjoy the new tech this competition brings us.

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    How To Be A http://CollegeCheapskate.com
  • hotwaterham, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And as for video #2:

    If you want to start nitpicking or start with that "stealing" bull****, then you might want to remember that Microsoft demoed the insta-search capabilities available in Vista LONG before Spotlight was a part of OS X.

    Oh, and who needs parental controls for video games on a Mac? There are maybe thirty mainstream titles available for OS X.
  • ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dupe. Search 'Vista Backlash"
  • lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1andrewR: "Oh if only I could have a MAC because I just love the interface and the awesome features, oh but wait! None of my favorite applications will run on a MAC!! Argh what should I do? Oh wow look at the new Windows Vista OS coming out! It's just like OSX and it runs all my favorite WINDOWS apps!! Hooray microsoft saves the day again!"

    It's called Open Source Software. No matter how much Jobs wants it to deviate from it's roots by becoming a pop culture icon, a Mac machine is still a UNIX machine.
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"That just about sums up 75% of the last week's comments associated with any post about any platform. Can we please move on?"

    And your comment would fit into the people moaning about the people moaning category which I dont have a percentage for but I'm more fed up reading this than attempts at discussion about os's and their differences.
  • heinous, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1This sorta debate makes me want to rip all of your heads off. SHUT UP. GET A LIFE. No one cares which operating system you prefer. god, I wish the digg RSS feed would just point to the site instead of pointing to these comment cesspools.
  • OregonTrail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow you guys killed coral, great job
  • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lollerskates - what point are you trying to make?

    that was a confusing sentence, but I think you're equating UNIX with open source (Linux), and suggesting that Apple somehow hides the fact that OS X is Unix? Odd.
  • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN 2 DAYS THAT THIS HAS BEEN ON THE FRONT PAGE!

    It's just plain stupid. They should rename Digg to "a bunch of people who see anything pro-Mac and automatically put it on the front page regardless of whether they've already seen it just one day before or not"
  • mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Kudos @zonkzor for pointing that out. If it weren't for Microsoft, Apple would be Microsoft. Corporations are corporations, trusting them is like trusting the Mafia. But yes, it does appear that MS is copycatting Apple and that Apple took ideas from MS (but on at least a couple of occasions implemented them faster). Who is surprised at this lack of innovation on both sides. Not me.
  • gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0BTW, marked as spam because that's what this is.
  • hiro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Very funny but who really cares, war over, battle won, hard luck Apple you gave it your best shot, goodnight. I like my iPod though, stick what you do best Jobs : )
  • birch25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I hate to break it to you but Apple didn't invent or popularize widgets, gadgets, or whatever else you want to call these mini-applications"

    i love seeing people who think they know what they're talking about more than everyone else make fools of themselves. apple used these "mini-apps" back before OS9 (8, i believe).

    and the whole point of the videos are to show that what they were bragging about in windows makes just as much sense when you play a mac video behind it and see that these features have been in Mac OS X for a long time. hell, they'll have been there for 1 1/2 years once vista finally comes out (exposé has been there since 2003 and command-tab for even longer).
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol radicand.

    I dont have anything else to say about this at the moment but had to get a lol in and it seemed so lonely on its own, so heres some extra padding.
  • lotusleaf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@heinous:
    "SHUT UP. GET A LIFE. No one cares which operating system you prefer."

    I'm glad no one has finally spoken on this. Thanks, no one! I look forward to no one's additional opinions.
  • Perc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Oh if only I could have a MAC because I just love the interface and the awesome features, oh but wait! None of my favorite applications will run on a MAC!! Argh what should I do? Oh wow look at the new Windows Vista OS coming out! It's just like OSX and it runs all my favorite WINDOWS apps!! Hooray microsoft saves the day again!"

    >> Windows computers run windows apps, macs run mac apps. Not wanthing to switch simply because you can't run the exact same app is dumb. Also, MAC in all-caps stands for media access control, not macintosh.

    "does anyone know where i can see the microsoft ces keynote in something besides wmp? (wmp sucks for mac)."

    >> flip4mac worked for me.
  • Hohenheim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Sidebar, and accompanying gadgets, are Microsoft's take on the Konfabulator engine (I hate to break it to you but Apple didn't invent or popularize widgets, gadgets, or whatever else you want to call these mini-applications).

    Sorry, but wrong...
    http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt
  • dkocolin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If you want to start nitpicking or start with that "stealing" bull****, then you might want to remember that Microsoft demoed the insta-search capabilities available in Vista LONG before Spotlight was a part of OS X."

    who cares if MS demoed it first. apple shipped it first and i'm using it on my powerbook now. and it works.

    "i love seeing people who think they know what they're talking about more than everyone else make fools of themselves. apple used these "mini-apps" back before OS9 (8, i believe)."

    actually it was the original macintosh. in 1984.
  • hiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Not wanting to switch simply because you can't run the exact same app is dumb"

    Erm, you might want to read that back to yourself again. Sticking with a computer that runs the programs that best suit your needs seems to be pretty logical. At the end of the day, it's the apps that matter, not the OS
  • sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone got a copy of this that they can host? corel wont load it and neither will the main site.... :-(
  • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of the ads Apple ran "congratulating" Microsoft on Windows 95:
    http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ads/magazines/windows/win95-apple

    Also, anyone remember the stickers that said "Windows 95 = Macintosh 89"?
  • pbailey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lol
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hehe, nice find there hohenheim. Desktop ornaments lol
  • mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Service Temporarily Unavailable
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

    Shtt. This is why the internet needs to run bittorrent.
  • inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This argument is totally retarded, consider that fact that you are comparing Vista with Apple's offerings from over a year ago. Apple will release 10.5 LONG before Vista ever comes out which will once again put apple ahead of microsoft for a few years.
  • RiddickRom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like how you can predict the future with such accuracy inkhead. Based on Apples last lacklustre update I'd certainly not make such a prediction myself.
  • inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dkocolin, "instant search" capabilities have been around since os 9, that's 10 years ago. Spotlight and OS 10.4 was in development 2 years ago, when i first played with it. And 10.3 had a feature similar but was taken out of the beta (4 years ago)

    Basically microsoft has shown nothing new, except how to over complicate the file browsing experience. Apple releasing a new finder in 10.5 as well as their new DVR solutions and several more apps and a completely redesigned file browsing experience. If it comes to choosing the innovations of Apple or Microsoft, Choose Apple. period.
  • topper24hours, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Oh if only I could have a MAC because I just love the interface and the awesome features, oh but wait! None of my favorite applications will run on a MAC!! Argh what should I do?"

    Buy an XBOX? Or do you mean none of your anti-spyware apps run on mac? Because I'm pretty sure mac has Office, CD/DVD authoring, photo/movie editing, web/email, and every other type of app imaginable (other than games and anti-spyware) so please either cite wtf you are refering to.
  • inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apple anticipate the needs of customers and delivers innovative software based on this. Microsoft waits until LONG AFTER the need EXISTS before developing software...

    This is evident in the fact that spyware actually exists, and sneaky popups. Considering that microsoft release 856 security patches in 2005, and Apple only had to release 42.

    Think about that for a long time. People on OS X don't ever think about spyware, or slow computers from sneaky popups. It doesn't happen, but still 5 years later it happens all over windows and is the #1 concern of business everywhere. All because MS is lazy, they could have had a solution a week after spyware was around. I love how apple 1/1000 the size of microsoft gets compared directly to microsoft and spanks them up and down... Microsoft has unlimited resources, and could hire every person at apple but, no matter what microsoft does they can't seem to get anything right.
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