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Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents
itwbennett writes "As details about new features in Windows 8 started to be discussed in the Building 8 blog and bandied about in Linux/Windows forums, Linux users were quick to chime in with a hearty 'Linux had that first' — even for things that were just a natural evolution, like native support for USB 3.0. So ask not 'did Linux have this first', but 'does Windows 8 do it better?'"
Really, that's what is going to matter. M$ always does things their way, and to a Microsoftie they will always think it's the best. The problem with Microsoft is, and has been for a very long time, that they not only believe that they invented everything but also submit patent requests for everything. Of course with the mess that is our patent system, it's a challenge to get them revoked (Thank the BitLords for the Open Source Patent fighting squads!).
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Maybe if Linux was created by game developers... but currently, it's userbase are primarily Python-breathing geeks who like interpreted+GC'ed languages, don't care that much about performance on any particular machine and dread the thought of exposing direct access to raw hardware without introducing N layers of abstraction (preferably with network transparency).
Coding etudes
Windows and Mac have done wonders to enable the inept, or rather the patented iNept masses.