Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back

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Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back

Posted by pudge on Monday May 12, 2003 @06:31AM from the i'll-get-the-popcorn dept.

hype7 writes "The NYT (free reg reqd etc) is running an interesting article on where MS seems to be getting all the ideas for its next big OS release, Longhorn. It's only a quickie, but they look at MS's big news from WinHEC, and their possible sources for inspiration. They also pull out that fantastic Bill Gates quote: 'The one thing Apple's providing now is leadership in colors'; and that Apple execs are now having a laugh of their own over how Longhorn, 'Microsoft's 2005 version of its Windows operating system, apes features that have been in Apple's OS X operating system since 2001.'"

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Re:The both copy each other... by BJZQ8 · 2003-05-12 06:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Jobs and Gates are two immovable objects that are colliding with irresistable force...and these are the results. They just sort of merge together. Apple becomes DRM-loving Microsoft, and Microsoft becomes touchy-feely-hippie-interfaced Apple. No surprise to me.
Re:Flattery and Imitation by Jedi+Alec · 2003-05-12 06:38 · Score: 5, Funny

but I do wonder whether there's an agreement where Microsoft pays Apple for some of this
Apple gets to ship IE with their computers ;-)

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one of the features they haven't told us about yet by rock_climbing_guy · 2003-05-12 06:44 · Score: 5, Funny

The mandatory registration will automatically register you for the New York Times. Then, Internet Explorer will automatically remember your registration ID and password. Oh yeah, maybe mandatory registration will automatically sign you up for MS Passport as well.
Heck, it reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where an "InstalSHIELD" type program displays the message "Install Wizard is now placing orders for products you will probably need... Found your credit card number..."

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Re:Yawn by HarveyBirdman · 2003-05-12 06:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Everyone here is a Microphobe.
Uuummm.... fear of microphones?
Fear of germs?
Fear of tiny gay men?

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Here's a summary... by Dthoma · 2003-05-12 06:44 · Score: 4, Funny
...of the responses this story will no doubt get when more people start commenting, for the benefit of those lacking time to read them all:
- Apple copies Microsoft
- Microsoft copies Apple
- Everyone copies the hell out of everyone else
- All of these features were in BSD/Linux/AIX/VMS/SysV since 1995/1990/1985/1930
- Fuck you all, Apple rulez
- I know I'm going to get modded down for saying this, but Microsoft has innovated
- Give one example where Microsoft has innovated
- An example of Microsoft innovation
- Five examples of Apple's innovation
- Somebody screaming that all of these features were copied from an obscure OS from thirty years ago
- I use Multics! I love it, and you should too!
- Fuck Linux
- Fuck Microsoft
- Shaddap all of you, copying is part of innovation
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iMacs!
- The latest Microsoft PCs are copies of iMacs
- Here's a reg-free link to the article
- Steve Jobs hasn't had an original idea since 1990
- Bill Gates hasn't had an original idea since 1970
- ...plus the standard trolls
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More to come.........uhhhhhh...yeah by curtisk · 2003-05-12 06:46 · Score: 5, Funny

"We only showed glimpses of the future of Longhorn,Wait until the fall when we'll go into more detail at the Professional Developers Conference."
Yeah, after they check out Apple's latest OSX version "Panther" in July :)
They only need a few months to emulate what they see there, right?!

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Did anybody notice the photo (of the MS/HP Athens) by rgoer · 2003-05-12 06:47 · Score: 4, Funny

I mean, sure, we can go back and forth with the same old MS vs Apple BS... but there is something new and humorous to point out here:

Did anybody notice the desktop image used in the promo photo of the MS/HP Athens (top right of atricle page)? It's as if MS said: "you're damned right we're copying Apple. Fuck them! We'll copy their default desktop image, too, pompous bastards that they are!"
Microsoft is speeding up... by TFloore · 2003-05-12 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Really... Windows 2005 will have things that have been in MacOSX since 2001, huh?

Windows 95 copied things that had been in MacOS since... 1986 or so?

The way I count things, MS is getting better, right? They went from 9 years behind to 4 years behind, in only 10 years.

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Re:What's so funny? by bbc22405 · 2003-05-12 07:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, but MS didn't steal the "Bliss Screen" and color scheme from Apple. They stole it from Teletubbies.
"Time for Tubby Bye-bye"!
Re:BSD by Mikey-San · 2003-05-12 07:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Do you know who they both steal from? BSD.

Stealing from a dead man is called scavenging.

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Re:The both copy each other... by suwain_2 · 2003-05-12 07:28 · Score: 4, Funny

And UNIX copied su from SCO? ;)

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Re:Arrogance is Dangerous by thatguywhoiam · 2003-05-12 08:06 · Score: 4, Funny

I remember when IBM announced their first personal computer. Of course, Apple said something like "Welcome. Serioiusly."
Ah, but you forgot the most hubristic - and funniest - ad that Apple ran.
At the launch of Windows 95, Apple ran a full-page ad (NYT?) that said:
C:/NGRDLTNS.W95
Priceless.
Your point is taken, though. Let's see if Apple is awake this time. Something tells me they are.

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And to misquote by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-12 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny

"... I don't think." -- Bill Gates