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Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment
Z80xxc! writes "After a comment by a Microsoft employee claiming in an interview that 'what we [Microsoft] have tried to do with Windows 7... is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics,' the Windows 7 team has issued an official rebuttal, saying that the comment came from an employee who was 'not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7,' and that it was 'inaccurate and uninformed.'"
or...Total butt-kisser thinks he is helping the situation by claiming Windows is like MacOSX so that there will be no reason to switch. Actual look-and-feel sucks shit, so his comment is misleading. MS fanboys try to claim Win7 is actually better in 3.. 2.. 1..
Or you know, this guy just let out the big dirty secret and in an attempt to save face, the "Windows team" puts out an official response that claims the contrary even though at this point it's pretty obvious to anyone with 1 functionning eye, trying to kill the first guy's credibility in order to sweep all of this under the rug.
The end the night by sucking their collective thumb and weeping for their mommies to "make it all go away".
See, anyone can say anything about it. The few people who know the actual truth (the first guy and the Windows team) won't ever tell us the real truth.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
No. The best thing about Macs is they aren't malware prone like Windows. They aren't dominated by Microsoft software that is created with an incompetent notion of usability that ultimately leads to innovating new forms of malware. They are safe for "grandma" to use not because they are inherently more "usable" but because they are inherently more secure and you won't by constantly trying to prevent her from browsing the wrong site or enabling the wrong browser plugin.
Everyone else should view the Microsoft debacle in this respect as a warning and act accordingly.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
And the key word here is _precisely_.
> - trashcan copied
Actually, that's exactly why Microsoft never called it the "trashcan". They called it a Recycle Bin. It looks different, too.
> Shutdown procedure copied ... > ... This is not _precisely_ the same as the Mac.
Windows has a start button attached to a start menu. To shut down, you go Start > Shut down
And so on...
The point is look-and-feel protection is a very narrow protection. It protects you from lookalikes, not workalikes.
And finally: sue or shut up. Frankly, if some Mac fans (or Apple) feel Windows 7 ripped the Mac off, they ought to get Apple to sue. Lord knows Apple isn't litigation-shy. Thankfully, their lawyers are a little more grown-up than the average Mac fanboy.
Actually the lawsuit was about the fact that Microsoft stole the library routines for mac os and called it windows. Which they did and as a stupid loophole in their contract allowed them to do it the judge had no choice. Microsoft was an Apple contractor at the time developing Office (Yes office was Mac only in it's first iteration).
Why bother
Windows has always been a rip-off of Mac, and a poorly done one at that. There is nothing new about that. Microsoft has always ripped off, they have never innovated, except possibly with Microsoft Bob, which they cannot blame on anyone outside the company.
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