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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.'"
I suspect lots of Linux/Mac OSX fanatics will be coming in 3.. 2.. 1..
I came as fast as I could! Just let me get my breath back and I'll start bashing whoever the bad guy is in the story! Who is it today? MacDonalds? Apple? Microsoft? Jack Thompson?
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OMGBBQ!!!!! Gnome is bettar than both!!!!! and anyway it all comes from PARC work blah blah GEM blah blah Amiga blah
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
I'm a Mac and Windows 7 was MY idea
Penny Arcade put it well:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
Microsoft has issued an official rebuttal: "We never used OS X as a source of inspiration in the design of Windows 7. This is completely uninformed. We used KDE 4 instead".
so did xkcd.
I don't get why it'd be funny, but I also don't get why it's modded troll. Some people are just to trigger happy, eh?
Maybe it's a KDE user who did it.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Right click? What is this right click you speak of?
I doubt a KDE user would do it, they'd have to spend too long looking through the huge array of buttons and options that do similar things in order to just be at the end of desperation, push one of them in the hope it does the right thing.
I would probably go with defecating on the CEO's desk, being caught copulating with cleaning equipment, and attempting to snort toner out of the photocopier would take up those top slots, but hey, if you think you can get away with one of those...
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
Windows 7 is still clunky, slow, and unstable.
Citation needed. I use Windows 7 and it's certainly not one of those.
Which one of them is it not?
You forgot Sony, RIAA, MPAA.
BTW for the GP:
Nothing to see here. But I suspect lots of Linux/Mac OSX fanatics will be coming in 3.. 2.. 1..
We do not have to come, we *live* here.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
In my defense, that mop was a slut
You seem to be one of those people who don't get it. It's not any one individual feature, or lots of them that makes OS X polished. It's how they work together, and how usable they are (usability is all about hiding complexity or exposing the absolute minimum necessary to get something accomplished in an as intuitive way as possible).
And this is where OS X shines. When I first switched to it from years of mental abuse from Redmond, I felt naked without complexity (where is my regedit, computer icons on desktop to right click on and choose manage, where are all the dialogs popping and jumping in my face, things steeling focus, where are the problems for me to tinker with instead of you know doing things that I turned the computer on for). IT just all seemed too simple, and I was wondering, what the hell, how can you do anything with so little. I didn't realize that I was conditioned for years to expect trouble, to spend my valuable time making windows run smoothly to the point that it become an instinct and expectation. Without it I felt just wrong.
But amazingly enough, you later realize that you don't need any of those things, and that OS X just gets out of the way, and lets you do things, and enjoy your applications. And the few base services that it does provide (like spotlight, expose, spaces, etc) are there on each machine and they work well and fast. And you don't need to spend significant amount of your time baby sitting the OS and making it run fast and smoothly. It does that on its own. My OS X installation is just as fast as the first day I put it there 2 years later. Windows somehow manages to get progressively slower with time.
As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.