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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Why even bother commenting? by Torgo's+Pizza · 2003-05-12 06:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is one of those article submissions where I'll set the comment filter to 5 simply because the comments are going to be in four groups. Thirty-two percent of the articles are going to be MS bashing, the other 32 percent will be either reposts of the NYT article or a link to the Google referrer page; 32 percent will mention that Apple stole from Xerox Parc and the remaining 4 percent will actually have something enlightening to say.