David Pogue Takes On Vista

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 18, 2006 @12:43AM from the vista-with-an-X dept.

guruevi writes to let us know about a review of Microsoft Vista in the NY Times, in the form of an article and a video, by the known Mac-friendly David Pogue. In the article, Pogue recasts Microsoft's marketing mantra for Vista: "Clear, Confident, Connected" becomes "Looks, Locks, Lacks." Pogue writes that Vista is such a brazen rip-off of Mac OS X that "There must be enough steam coming out of Apple executives' ears to power the Polar Express." But the real fun is in the video, in which Pogue attempts to prove that Vista is not simply an OS X clone.

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Re:Okay we get it by klubar · 2006-12-18 02:03 · Score: 1, Flamebait

There's not a lot of fame and glory from writing that Microsoft hit a home run. It's much better to recycle the old "Microsoft copied it from Apple" line. Who cares about who was first.... it's called building on prior art.... now it's up to Apple to see what they can build on from Microsoft (see fast user switching, ethernet) and dropping the failures (see appletalk, ADB, newton, cyberdog, OS 1-9).