I wonder if the problem is not about the word to use :

rip-off   OR    inspiration

and what I have seen seems to be a rip-off on Mac OS X design ...

(where are you Dante Inferno lol)

XD, a complete ripoff??? WTF mate, if that were the case, then Apple would be guilty of stealing ideas from Windows XP. 

@ telega... your MS hate is just pathetic.

"i dont see M$ learning about game consols the difference here is that xbox made a console with a big problems(RROD) and is the second one"

Did you say this about $ony last gen? Since the PS2 was known to have widespread failure. And yet, $ony offered no extention to their warranty. BTW, RROD is basically a non-issue anymore since it is quite rare with the new motherboards. Bringing it up in the present tense is just trolling. Oh, and the first console MS made was rock solid...so, damn dude, could you be any more inconsistent?

awww =( its not trolling what i mean is that all i see from M$ isnt original maybe NATAL if it works well =) but true first xbox was great with some issues ofcourse

oo and i didnt say anything about PS2 cuz we are talking about M$

Xerox Parc

Nope, but I did because it was relevant to the fail that was coming out of your mouth. 

Oh, BTW, Natal has been done on PCs before. So that's not original either. 

Oh, and once last thing, perhaps you missed the part where all the sane people said that companies copy each other, thats kinda what it takes to compete in the business world, you take one company's idea, and make it better. If you understood how business works, you would see there is hardly any company that is truly original. 

There's a saying: "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

As a designer, I take inspiration from lots of different places. I have a problem with copying features, but not designs. As long as it's only an inspiration and not a direct rip, who cares?

Yes, MS deserves lots and lots of respect. And they do get respect. People think of MS as very powerful and almost every comp geek have at some point had a dream to work at MS.

CUZ $$$$

XD epic win!