Similarities: Vista and OS X (Pictures)

[chaos86]

Hmm... I don't know about all the "ripping-off" but opposed to people saying they like how it looks, I personally think its a bit ugly. I actually like the way XP looks better!

i wouldnt say ugly, id say disorganized. look at any of the control panel windows and try to figure out what it does just by the title bar, then look at the windows contents and see if it matches.

 

[Dominatus]

Does anyone here realize that both the integrated search and the sidebar gadgets thing were demonstrated and talked about many many times way before Tiger was announced?

 

[Macmadant]

It's the part in Pirates of Silicon Valley when Jobs called Gates to come over and visit, and Gates walks in to find Jobs with his back to him listening to classical music and he yells at him "YOU'RE STEALING FROM US!", in reference to this new OS, copied mosly from Apple and called, "what is it, windows or something?"

oh, and its the scene depicted in my avatar, i think im gonna animate it later.

a Very good movie, i presume you know, that when the film was released apple got noah wyle to come on to the stage at the start of the keynote dressed in black shirt + jeans they all thought it was him until steve walked on 10 mins later

 

[brap]

Question: can the fluff be turned off? I still quite like 'Windows classic'.

 

[sushi]

Question: can the fluff be turned off? I still quite like 'Windows classic'.

With regards to XP, yes you can.

 

[brap]

With regards to XP, yes you can.

Nah, I was rather referring to Vista (since it's likely someone expressing opinions here has the beta through whatever means).

 

[G99]

Thats funny, I was thinking about this a few weeks ago: The word Gadget even sounds like widget!

 

[sushi]

Nah, I was rather referring to Vista (since it's likely someone expressing opinions here has the beta through whatever means).

As for Vista, no idea personally.

Hopefully as you say, someone with a copy will enlighten us on that point.

 

[thestaton]

V.I.S.T.A. (various improvements similar to apple)

haha, with your permission I'm not using this as my quote on several forums & on myspace best I have read in awhile!

 

[Josh]

haha, with your permission I'm not using this as my quote on several forums & on myspace best I have read in awhile!

No you may not. It is his trademarked phrase, for which he originally invented and gets paid for every time it's used.

Anyone caught using it will be sued.

Sorry....just see too many of these "zOMG! LOLZORS!! Funnist phrase of my life can I put on forum?!" questions.

Post it all over the place, make shirts out of it, name a sandwich after it....you need no ones permission to do this.

Sorry, bad day

 

[mark88]

I *was* looking forward to Vista, but reading the official site last week I came away with this list...

Quick/Desktop Search = Spotlight
Windows Aero = Apple Aqua
Windows Flip = Expose
Search Folders = Smart Folders
Gadgets & Sidebar = Dashboard
DVD Maker HD = iDVD HD
Windows Photo Gallery = iPhoto
Windows Calendar = iCal
Windows Mail = Mail

And I'm sure I've missed a few, like Parental controls etc. To me, the above list is embarrassing more than anything. It really is true that most of the new features of Vista that Microsft are making a song and dance about are just lifted from OS X.

I'd love to have been in the meeting where they decided upon the "Aero interface" :-/

On the other hand, at least they are stealing from the competition, not their own developers.

 

[bense27]

haha what a rip off...widgets and gadgets....i hate microsoft. But, I think the windows version of expose is much cooler than OS X

 

[MisterMe]

haha what a rip off...widgets and gadgets....i hate microsoft. But, I think the windows version of expose is much cooler than OS X

I don't think that you need to worry about Vista's ripping-off MacOS X. If the blogs are to be believed--and I believe they are--Vista is pretty much done for. Although the statement has been denied, it has been reported that 60% of Vista code has to be rewritten. Thursday's announcement of another Microsoft Windows group reorganization would appear not to be the tip of teh iceberg. It appears to be warning whistle on the Titanic.

 

[ethen]

it's what you called over inspired
but you know, most of new stuff is always inspired from something else. only a few number are real innovated products