| Domicinator said: Any statement about Windows copying Mac OS is complete ignorance. A research group at Xerox back in the 70's and 80's developed the windows type interface that BOTH operating systems use. BOTH companies liked it and did their own take on it. Apple made a cottage industry out of suing Microsoft back in the 80's claiming that Microsoft stole their Windows idea, when really they both took the idea from Xerox. And why is Vista So the Zune is a copy of the iPod? How about all the other MP3 players out there? How about that Samsung Instinct? Copy of the iPhone, right? Are you honestly saying that the iPod is the only MP3 player that has a right to exist and that no other company should try to compete with it? That's ridiculous. There are jillions of other MP3 players out there that look like the iPod. You only rip on MS because they're MS. And for the record, the Zune is a better MP3 player than the iPod. |
lol, you don't know me very well. I make my living as a Microsoft Developer, and have a CS degree. In order to get that, you need to take history of computing. I don't need to take history however to know about MS. I had a PC in 1980, and have owned every OS they have ever made. I have an MSDN license, and thus all MS software is available to me. I have evaluated, or utilized most of it.
MS does a lot of things well, very well. But there consumer offerings (not servers/dev tools) are all direct copies of competitors.
There is not enough time in the day to explain to you how OSX is better then Vista. Also comparing these OS's to what came out of Xerox PARC is ridiculous. Oh, and Steve Jobs asked Xerox if they could have the Alto 88's OS (and the mouse). Bill Gates then Stole the Mac design when Apple gave a prototype of the Mac to MS so they could write applications for it. If you think that's the same thing, you should be the last one throwing the word "ignorance" around.
And yes, the Instinct is a copy of the IPhone.
