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Windows Vista 5342 Screenshots
Lhopar writes "Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista to beta testers. Flexbeta has got some screenshots. Included in this build is an extensive collection of drivers and the exclusive sidebar. Glass is also a feature that we all have come to respect and love, along with the 3D flip. The official version number is 6.0 Version 5342.winmain_idx04.060321-1730. Internet Explorer 7.0 is build Version 7.0.5342.2. Nice features include a new 'Paint' and needed redesigned network center."
Ouch, looking at the pics, I had two impressions:
1. Vista is looking better and better
2. Microsoft again copied a whole bunch of stuff from the Mac
The last point makes me wonder what the fuck is going on at Redmond if they are so incapable of making their own innovations that they have to steal every damn thing that they possibly can. A short list of Bill the wanker's "Innovations"
1. Glass effects - Yes, Bill, OSX had these all of 5 yeras ago
2. Windows Mail - Wow, Bill, you big pussy, are you so mentally stunted that Outlook had to go so that you could copy OSX Mail? Geez...
3. Gadgets - Geez, Bill, were you gettting a fisting session from Ballmer complaining about OSX' Dashboard widgets?
4. area screenshots - wowowowowow, I'm truly impressed. Really. Honestly.
Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer, or one of your morons reading this: Seeing that you've just delayed your new toys once a-fucking-gain, why don't you just drop the effort and just ask Apple if you can't sell their OS? Even though you fuckers put the word "innovation" in every press release, and every mail to your brainwashed idiots who would actually works for you, the truth is that you wouldn't know actual innovation if it walked up to you, slit your throats and laughed at you while you bled to death, you poor desperate fools.
Before you go around boosting how many ideas are copied from Apple, check out OS X. It's an operating system Apple claims to have made. It's almost completely ripped from open source projects, mostly FreeBSD but also samba, apache and many more. The rest that isn't ripped straight off was bought in from a company called Next. Apple did almost nothing on the OS themselves. They even had to bring over the Next CEO because Apple had ZERO idea of what they where doing at all.
I don't know where you have your sources, but I'm sorry to say they are wrong. There isn't much inventing going on at Apple. Just look at how they jumped on the x86 bandwagon 15 year later then everybody else.