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Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment

Posted by samzenpus on from the imitation-is-the-greatest-form-of-flattery dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:ego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  2. Re:ego by zmollusc · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..0
    OMGBBQ!!!!! Gnome is bettar than both!!!!! and anyway it all comes from PARC work blah blah GEM blah blah Amiga blah ....

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  3. Hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a Mac and Windows 7 was MY idea

  4. Re:ego by Jarik+C-Bol · · Score: 4, Funny

    Penny Arcade put it well:
    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/

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  5. This is not like OS X! by zebslash · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

  6. Re:ego by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    so did xkcd.

  7. Re:ego by Mitchell314 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:ego by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:Things not to do if you like your job by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  10. Re:If this is true... by d34dluk3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  11. Re:Things not to do if you like your job by spruce · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my defense, that mop was a slut