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Microsoft Gives Early Look at Windows 10 Featuring Windows 7 Elements, Broad Adaptability
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Windows gets all the good games and best graphics subsystem and drivers. Mac is best at everything else.
Yea, because when the general public sees or hears 10, they think of OSX.
Hope you are not that guy who gets offended when android users point out features we just got that they have had for years.
Nice of you to sign up on here today to bash OSX. Are you friends with member ApfelSchaf? Similar spelling of Apple, similar bashing of all things apple, similar brand fu*king new member.... Does Microsoft or Samsung pay you to post? Do they pay you a lot? Because they are overpaying for worthless comments.
Bugs me when Apple does it, bugs me when Microsoft does it. Maybe insinuating that we have the attention span and memory retention of a gnat is just annoying.
I guess someone at MS found out that Craig Federighi is nicknamed "Hair Force One" and they wanted to have one of those as well.
But, who knows
For those who don't know what this poster is referring to check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
Of course, if you read the linked article, you might still be wondering what the poster's point was. It's part of the Mac myth that Apple "stole" the idea of a GUI and mouse from Xerox PARC (Apple paid for the visit and went well beyond what Xerox had done), just as it's a myth that Windows "stole" the Mac OS look and feel (they had an agreement that allowed them to copy it, and had better lawyers to get away with continuing to copy it).
The point being the word "stole" is pretty loaded and seldom accurate. Steve Jobs liked to quote Picasso "Good artists borrow (copy), great artists steal" recognizing we cannot ignore our past experience when creating.
Samsung, however....
Nothing like an older gentleman trying to introduce a "modern" OS with a Haircut that is 80's... I had the impression I was watching an ad for Windows made by a member of the band "The Cure"
It's so gross. Reminds me how much I hate windows. Yuck. Task bar is awful. Snapping windows? This is something to brag about?
But the best thing was "you will get more frequent updates with less polish". What windows user has ever said they would like more frequent updates?
"Now you can wait around for your comp to update and restart twice a day instead of a measly once a day on windows 6/7/8!"
But the best thing was "you will get more frequent updates with less polish". What windows user has ever said they would like more frequent updates?
"Now you can wait around for your comp to update and restart twice a day instead of a measly once a day on windows 6/7/8!"
The thing with Microsoft is the total lack of art and class.
Borrowing ideas from another company is the usual, but stealing a name..? Tacky.
Borrowing ideas from another company is the usual, but stealing a name..? Tacky.
Ummmm, you were half right. Microsoft did not have an agreement with Apple to copy the Mac OS user interface. They had an agreement to develop applications for the Mac, namely Excel and Word. Apple gave them early access to the Mac platform to do that, and Microsoft secretly used that opportunity to take ideas for their own operating system.
So forget windows 8 ever happened and then copy a bunch of stuff from osx?
Any improvements are welcome improvements.
stealing a number is hardly stealing a name....typical fanboy
apple used 10...therefore no one else can.
get real.