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- MacParrot, on 11/12/2009, -7/+157Whatever. Both Apple and Microsoft have copied elements from each other over the years. Can we get past this please?
- eh123, on 11/12/2009, -37/+101The only people who care about stories like these are smug apple-using a-holes.
- jrm125, on 11/11/2009, -21/+82I see nothing wrong with this.
I like OSX...but the thing I can't get past is lack of the taskbar. Using Expose is far more annoying than seeing everything that's open right there in front of you and switching quickly.
If MS can take it the look and improve on it, I'm all for it. 7's bar is a masterpiece.
Combining the best of both OS's is fine with me. The vastly more flexible software selection of Windows with beautiful and easy to use look of OSX. - eh123, on 11/12/2009, -11/+48Oh and it turns out the story isn't true: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/ ...
- hardeep1singh, on 11/12/2009, -11/+45Right click?
- d0kk3n, on 11/12/2009, -3/+36Who give a *****?
- briLo, on 11/12/2009, -12/+45Reallly??? Take your ipod out of your ass and the iphone gag out of your mouth for a minute, step back, and please calm down. Instant Search, Gadgets, new users, just to name a few.
The main thing you need to understand is that this happens in every business. One car brings a technology to sense objects behind you when you're backing up, suddenly everyone has their own version.
What did both MS & Apple copy from Xerox?!? If you said GUI, ahh, what's the point, you're a fanboi afterall! - BaCk1a5h, on 11/12/2009, -6/+36Non existent?
Cmd - X
Cmd - V
Are you serious? - yttrstein, on 11/12/2009, -7/+32This has been going on since Windows 95, when Microsoft sold it as a more "mac-like" experience.
And suddenly everyone seems surprised. - specialK16, on 11/12/2009, -4/+25Well, if you weren't such a big apple fanboy and troll, you would've noticed that MS said the employee who made that comment had nothing to do in the development of Windows 7.
- pgriffinmonmout, on 11/12/2009, -5/+26Wow Engadget.. Stooping to the fanboy argument of "Looks and Feels Like a Mac?" Please. Go back to 1995.
- Angostura, on 11/12/2009, -2/+21Said the man who took the time to come in and comment
- philomatic, on 11/12/2009, -1/+17using cmd + tab and cmd + ` you can get wherever you need to insanely quick without having to move your hands away from the keyboard :)
- Bulletbillx, on 11/12/2009, -2/+17win+tab
alt+tab - mattguitar, on 11/12/2009, -1/+16When people say one company is copying another, I'm reminded about the time I got in trouble because I was copying what my sister was doing and she got mad.
MS recognized a great feature that users like and are incorporating it into their new OS, recognizing a competitor's innovation. I guess Mozilla copied Netscape when they incorporated a back button in their browser. - Lightstab, on 11/12/2009, -13/+26I actually prefer Expose to the Windows 7 dock. The previews on the Windows 7 dock are way too freaking small to be useful and I hate that stupid tiny button you have to push on the right to show the desktop. And there's no magnification feature in the Windows 7 dock.
Expose works better because of hot corners, which become muscle memory after repeated use. So I get to see every open window in a flash by a simple move to the corner of my screen, which is much more efficient and satisfying than the Windows 7 dock. - miggyb, on 11/12/2009, -1/+14cmd-tab?
- athinnes, on 11/12/2009, -9/+22I use both and find pros/cons with both operating systems. ***** people like you.
- FredFredrickson, on 11/12/2009, -5/+17So every modern OS that has transparency and animated windows is ripping off Apple now?
I'm sure the Linux community will be pleased to hear that all their hard work has resulted in an OS X rip off as well.
What a load of *****.
And buried for being inaccurate - they've already said that the guy who was quoted saying this wasn't even involved in the UI design. - SushiCW, on 11/12/2009, -0/+11"Let's not bicker and argue over who copied who..."
- inactive, on 11/12/2009, -1/+12My icons aren't on the right like they are on my mac.
- hallisna, on 11/12/2009, -0/+10@Mikerev - you're a perfect example of when the "anti-fanboy" attitude becomes fanboy in itself (in other words, highly motivated and biased in one's opinion of a product). I'm a PC user, but I can realize that Mac has done a few things right in their day.
- Figgler, on 11/12/2009, -1/+11I have a Mac and as soon as Windows 7 came out I used boot camp to install it along side Snow Leopard and I honestly love it. Windows 7 is fast, clean and easy to use. Kudos to Microsoft
- athinnes, on 11/12/2009, -2/+11Ahhh, a little rationality in a pile of *****.
- bikes2work, on 11/12/2009, -9/+18I call PC militants the Republicans of computer fanatics. You are all so angry and hate filled. Personally I use both systems and appreciate each individual strengths. You guys are just like Rush and Hannity, miserable, insecure and childish.
- drakino, on 11/12/2009, -3/+11If you like the Windows 7 taskbar, the Dock's method of app management isn't terribly different. Context-clicking (right click to windows users) will show all the open windows the app has running, just as a left click does on Windows 7. Or click and hold to see all the windows for that one app via expose. It's slightly different, but not by much.
The irritation I have with the 7 bar is the inconsistency of left clicking. If only one window is open for an app, it switches instantly. If 2 are open, it pops up little thumbnails and forces me to pick. I prefer OS X in that a left click always switches, and restores the windows order for that app. If I want to switch app windows, it's a distinct, consistent implementation. - linusl, on 11/12/2009, -6/+14I believe junkieSaysNO means the lack of cut and paste in finder. You can't cut and paste files in osx, at least not the last time I checked, and I too find that to be a really useful feature. Cut and paste for normal text though works as far as I know.
- JasonCox, on 11/12/2009, -3/+11Buried as inaccurate.
This story is just sensationalist nonsense based on the *opinion* of one guy who works at Microsoft but who didn't even work on Windows 7. - specialK16, on 11/12/2009, -1/+9tacojohn48, no, he is pretty much right.
Even Jobs admitted MS won the battle. - bluerei, on 11/12/2009, -3/+11Update from Engadget:
"Update: Microsoft has issued its response, and it's none too happy, and apparently the Microsoft employee in question was "not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7." From the official Windows Blog: "I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were inaccurate and uninformed." We imagine there were lots of frowny faces around the office today."
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/ ... - jasmeetsb, on 11/12/2009, -1/+9I feel Engadget is increasingly turning into Fox news of computer blogs!
- RogerStrong, on 11/12/2009, -0/+8It was Xerox who pioneered the GUI. Both Gates and Jobs got to see it, and both decided to produce their own GUI.
Windows was demonstrated at Comdex the year before the Mac was released. Once the Mac was shown to the public, they changed Windows to look *less* like it.
The Lisa and Mac were released first, but then Windows was a more ambitious project: They wanted it to run on a variety of computers, video cards (heck, the Mac didn't even support *color* until years later), screen resolutions, mice, ports, etc. And they wanted it to be backward compatible with existing hardware and software.
Of course what really happened was that the hardware matured and made GUIs possible. ACT over in Britain, DEC and others produced their own GUIs at the same time.
Bonus trivia:
Q: Who produced the first Unix-based OS released by Apple for its computers?
A: Microsoft. - hardeep1singh, on 11/12/2009, -5/+12Ah the incident where Microsoft took ball from Apple and ran with it. Apple never managed to get it back.
- hardeep1singh, on 11/12/2009, -4/+11These views are of a newbie MS employee who's going to be unemployed soon, you have no right to ***** on somebody else's years of hardwork.
Calling Windows 7 an inspiration from the half assed OS X is like undermining the work of so many talented employees, its really irritating for the people involved in creating the masterpiece that is Windows 7. - clippclop, on 11/12/2009, -0/+7Show the desktop? You mean
win + d - athinnes, on 11/12/2009, -0/+7Wait, you have both?! CANNOT COMPUTE. MUST CHOOSE SIDE. ERROR.
- St0neman, on 11/12/2009, -0/+62009 Winner of the "I'm not getting laid" contest.
- athinnes, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7Wow, you guys totally missed the point of that. This HAS NOTHING to do with Republicans using Macs.
- RogerStrong, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7Win2000 had a decent search feature in 1999.
- athinnes, on 11/12/2009, -5/+11I built my PC from scratch you stereotyping piece of trash. Try to generalize just a bit more.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Ohhh you had Mac in the late 90s, big ***** deal. A bit has changed since then you ignorant *****. - eadnams, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6@Figgler: Same, Windows 7 is a fantastic OS-- I love having the best of both worlds.
- TomPhoolery, on 11/12/2009, -8/+14what about the dock? expose is one of 4 ways of navigating in OS X.
this is old news. microsoft's been stealing from apple since windows 3.1. look it up. - mbst2000, on 11/12/2009, -2/+8Who cares really, I'm a mac user and will probably never go back to Windows, that said though, if you want to go way back in time with the who copied who you're going to be there a long time.
Does it make Windows better? Judging by the response to Windows 7 yes it does, so that's a good thing then. Trying to score PC/Mac fanboy points over this is a little stupid. - douglasr007, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6COMPUTERS CAME OUT IN 1950s
WINDOWS CAME OUT IN 1980s
COPY COPY COPY COPY RAMBLE RAMBLE RAMBLE - wacked, on 11/12/2009, -1/+6Meh. What else is new.
- serif69, on 11/12/2009, -3/+8The big issue with this that many people seem to be missing, and the reason why Microsoft responded so swiftly, is that "look and feel" is the exact terminology used to describe patent infringement. It's almost impossible these days to create an operating system that isn't at least inspired by what came before, but you can't claim to blatantly copy something, especially "look and feel", without facing legal consequences.
- briLo, on 11/12/2009, -3/+8Bullbear; I like your long explanation to say both Apple and MS copied Xerox!!!! Ha.
Bluescrn: Indexed/Instant search was available in longhorn previews years before however Bullbear disagrees with you on the actual date that occurred.
Miggyb: I think I am incorrect, they copied widgets from another application that was run on Windows. So no, technically not copied from MS, just another company. - RogerStrong, on 11/12/2009, -1/+6@designerutah: If you want to get that picky, Windows indexing service shipped as a free add-on for Windows NT 4.0, back in August 1996 - two years before Apple's indexing service. It later shipped in Windows 2000.
And the point with Gadgets, is that Microsoft was demonstrating them to the public long before Apple "invented" them.
As with most such claims that Microsoft stole something from Apple, it's not hard to demonstrate that Microsoft had it long before Apple.
I'm an Apple fanboy from way back - I've owned at least three Apple machines. But I see nothing wrong with giving credit where credit is due. - Rothbardosaurus, on 11/12/2009, -3/+8Why is it wrong when Microsoft does it, but cool when someone mods their GNOME desktop to do the same thing?
- mkriss5681, on 11/12/2009, -9/+14From 1992:
Windows 3.1 borrowing 'Mac look and feel" -
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