nytimes.com — Ordinarily, I'm careful about making accusations like this, because I know I'll get hammered by Apple bashers. But in this case, there's not a shred of doubt: most of the features Microsoft demonstrated last night were pure, unadulterated ripoffs from Mac OS X.
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dravidianJan 6, 2006
Listen to how ridiculous some of you Apple fanbois sound - you guys act like Apple gives a damn about you - they're just another company separating you from your money. Windows people dont really like Microsoft much because thats a very apparent fact to Windows people. But some of you Apple fanbois have fallen hook line and sinker for the Apple marketing bull$h1t. I mean listen to yourselves - you're in here defending Apple as though you own it. Wake up its just another company screwing you over, just like Microsoft.
Closed AccountJan 6, 2006
digg should have tags, like {flamewar}
vancouverJan 6, 2006
Vista.....Hilarious
inkswampJan 6, 2006
"Trust me, all those viruses, worms and exploits are coming to an OS X near you real soon, because this time next year OS X will be running Windows apps in OS X for Intel without the need for an install of Windows"It cracks me up no end the lengths Apple-bashers will go to prove that Macs aren't secure. So now it's Windows-on-Mac scenarios? "You know, your house wouldn't be as safe if we picked it up and put it down in the ghetto." Silly.Highly unlikely scenario, but even so, what would give this hypothetical Windows environment on OS X the privileges necessary to do half the things that Windows viruses do on Windows? Look at any given Windows virus and then think about how that virus might work on OS X and you'll see that Macs generally have a roadblock or two in place. The same viruses wouldn't work on a Mac. Apple ships Macs with very conservative settings out of the box (no unnecessary ports or services on by default) and admin accounts can't access system-level files without direct, explicit permission from the user--and there's no way around that. So even if a Windows virus gets loose in a Windows environment on OS X, it's contained and can't do much there.
decompilerJan 6, 2006
1) the uber-g33ks and early adopters come up with theSuperCoolThing (KDE, other Open Source, etc...)2) the hip #2 company copies it, puts a coat of chrome on it, and a year or two later releases a slightly watered down version called theNewHotness (Apple)3) the lumbering giant gets around to it a few more years later, waters it down a bit more, and markets it as theNextBigThing (you-know-who)between work and home, i'm a user of all three major desktop OSes (i use Ubuntu/Edubuntu, OS X Tiger, and Win2k/XP), so i watch the innovations move in this pattern all the time, as do a lot of other g33ks out there. Look at Konfabulator! (Or better yet, this new "find in files" craze... we've had grep in *nix for how long!?!)the real problem i have with M$ is the attitude with which they release these things: "look at our innovations! bow before our brilliance!" they always talk about their "new" features as if they actually came up with the ideas, which they seldom have (except for maybe xbox live, which r0X0rz...) and in fact, their versions generally pale in comparison to theSuperCoolThing or even theNewHotness.yeah, i want the features i love from linux and mac on my windows machine, but can you tone down the hype machine a bit?
ianbetteridgeJan 6, 2006
"The Exposé ripoff annoys me the most... In the Apple version, you can see all of the windows on one screen. The MS version shows you a deck of windows with only one window visible at a time so you have to shuffle through the windows (LAME!). "So it's completely different, yet somehow it's a rip-off? How does that work?
greenlineJan 7, 2006
Jaxun excellent!
mcsurferJan 7, 2006
To every fan of MS : do your resesarch on the companys practices in foriegn countries. micro$oft censors frees speech for $ (everyone who buys their products are supporting these practices too)
nexredOct 27, 2006
Which operating systems allows you to run a GUI optionally?100's of linuces.