Well I can't say I have used Macs very much... in fact only once when I was in France (off topic: I just hate the fact that they have a keyboard so different from the normal versions... It took me 10 minutes to write a 3 line email ). Yeah I think there are some similarities between Mac OS X and Windows Vista, but I don't think Microsoft has stolen everything.
What I can't really understand is the video. Is is supposed to attack the claims that Vista is a copy of Mac OS X or the other way around. Because, in my opinion, the video lets you think the exact opposite of what they say. C'mon the last thing with the chess board was a killer. Yeah as if the main difference in the two operating systems come in the chess game. True journalism... Mac OS X has grass chess board and Vista has marble. Yeah thats really important.

Anyway I won't be switching to Vista very soon... at least not as my main operating system. I have it installed as my secondary one and I can say it looks pretty good. As far as the hardware requirements they are high, but not as high as I expected. On my AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB RAM and GeForce 6600 it works decent, even very fast... of course I don't have many software that might slow it down. I don't even have an antivirus on it. So it is still irrelevant. On the other and Vista seems quite unfinished to me. I think Microsoft has rushed it too much... We have waited 5 years I think we could have waited another year. Windows XP is the next Windows 98 x 10.

@FF what do you mean they can't sue over similarities of how it looks and runs? By copyright law any similarities between any two items could be considered copyright infringement depending on the dates when those two items comes out. Now thats a loose translation of how copyrights work.

Of course that being the case the creator of linux could sue both Apple and Microsoft on some stuff that went open source to non-open source. Then Apple could sue Microsoft on some junk. Then Microsoft could go bankrupt since they took everyone else's ideas.


You would have to see it in the coding to find out if Microsoft did in fact did do some copy and pasting.. Of course whats funny is that Bill Gates has got some control over Apple computer, since he help Steve Jobs get out of Bankruptcy back in the 90s.

Who knows' he could me pimping out the Mac OS just to see what people think about before working on his own.

bah I don't think vista will be very succesful at all.

the only reason I (and probably countless others) use windows is because we don't want to use macs because we're narrowminded individuals who don't like change and thrive on familiarity

98===>XP- was okay, a bit buggy but I could survive
XP===>Vista- *hides under blanket* "I'm scared, what's going on in my desktop- gadgets???"!

every time I use a mac it takes me like 20 minutes to open something! microsoft what are you doing!?

I saw a great one some guy did on youtube. As this Microsoft guy is announcing all the new features, the guy who made the video is on a Mac Os X doing the same exact features.

And M$ ripped tabbed browsing. They aren't very original, but you can't sue them for stealing Mac Os X. You could just call it a parody.

V for Vista!

Why does it take you 20 mins to open something. They have a dock to put all your most used Applications (programs on Windows) which I have 20 and they fit nicely and the other ones i dont use often are only 3 clicks away. Same amount of clicks as Windows Start > All Programs > Program > .exe file On a mac its Mac HD > Application > Application. Actually quicker.


Thats is true haha. He did say a lot though. I mean a calendar, photo thing, search, chess game, gadgets. Its not like he did only stupid things.

Well all these big companies copy each other. As reported a while back Windows Vista is not the most secure operating system like they said previously. But it will intreseting to see if more people keep with xp or buy vista. I am personally fine with windows xp. Eventually when i get 1gb ram i will probably give Vista a shot.

OMG, Lol, widgets.... and gadgets. Not the same thing. Lol. Vista is a freaking copy, but I wouldnt care, I probably wont use most of those copied things anyway.

Actually, what is the "copyright" means? Is it only about the use and distribution of the operating system, or it includes the design and architecture of the operating system itself.

If apple cannot sue microsoft over this thing, that means everyone can make the similar operating system without being sued. Or there is some point that I have missed?

This post has been edited by apacheNewbie: Jan 8 2007, 01:46 PM

Well, what i am thinking is that as long as you write the code yourself and it isnt a copy then it's fine. So an example would be like writing a <b> tag and a <strong> tag. Their output is the same, but the coding is different. And if you look at the actual graphics they are also different. I think that is what they did.