Saint_Michael

Dec 18 2006, 09:19 PM

OMG M$ did rip them off ahahaha, Apple could so sue the hell out of them for this. It is so obvious that it is sickening, I have a feeling Vista is not going to last long once apple starts with the lawsuits and they show.

Widgets does not equal gadgets and yet are the same thing. Glad I have XP, what even funnier he only mentions the apple users and not the linux users.

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Plenoptic

Dec 18 2006, 10:30 PM

I would definitely stick with Windows XP. Like SM said though Mac was indeed ripped off. That's amazing how much they have gotten away with. With the release of Vista in January they are probably going to have so many problems coming for them. Bill Gates will file for bankruptcy. It's too bad no one can have their own ideas anymore. And Windows used to be the best operating system out there. Now they are turning into a cheat. Although I'm sure Mac has copied a few things from Windows too... just probably not so much.

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icemarle

Dec 20 2006, 10:55 AM

:/ Microsoft's running out of ideas? How sad... But seriously... it looks a lot like Mac. They might end up losing more reputation with that. They could've kept the same old things instead of trying to "innovate" them and end up having them look like another OS. Are they seriously trying to ruin their reputation or something?

Well... I'm going to stick to Windows XP a little longer. I'm already annoyed that it takes up a lot of RAM by itself because I need my RAM, and I can't exactly purchase an upgrade in my financial state. Sure... it looks pretty, but I don't enjoy lagging 'til kingdom come. I can't leave Windows entirely yet because I need it to run certain programs...

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dwayne12

May 8 2007, 11:40 AM

Of course microsoft copied mac, I think like a year or even more before vista was released people were saying that the new windows will be a mac clone basically. The features are the same just a different name it is quite disappointing the fact that microsoft can't distinguish itself from another company.

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galexcd

Apr 8 2007, 05:15 PM

QUOTE(BooZker @ Dec 18 2006, 02:02 PM)

This is a funny video that proves Windows did not just copy Mac OS X. It's by the New York Times and I actually didn't how much they were the same.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=d146...a4991&rf=bm

Check it out it's funny how much the resemple each other.

HAha, yeah I saw that one. It's hillarious. Take that windows users!

QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ Dec 18 2006, 02:19 PM)

OMG M$ did rip them off ahahaha, Apple could so sue the hell out of them for this.

I doubt it. I dont think apple is too keen on sueing the company who's owner owns like 80% of apple's stock...

QUOTE(KuBi @ Dec 18 2006, 04:22 PM)

It's not a ripoff guys, can't you see the search botton on Vista is in the bottom left corner. DUH.

lol kubi

QUOTE(BooZker @ Dec 18 2006, 10:54 PM)

Didn't Apple come before out before Windows then Bill Gates tweaked the UI a bit then released it. For a long time Windows made it's own stuff and was original.

YES!!! Those bastards, stealing ideas from apple...

QUOTE(truefusion @ Dec 18 2006, 10:58 PM)

I think the verdict was similar to: Microsoft modified things JUST ENOUGH to get by.

No the thing was because apple didn't come up with the idea for the computer, xerox did, and gave it away for free to apple because they didn't think it was worth anything. Apple designed the brand new GUI while gates still only had text. Gates stole this, but the verdict was that it wasn't apple's product. I think they didn't know the differece between hardware and software back then >_> becasue apple got the computer from xerox but the os they coded themselves....

You guys really need to watch the movie "Pirates on silicon valley". Its a great movie about this whole thing.

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sunzoje

Mar 31 2007, 01:33 AM

resemblence doesn't means copying. still vista is a system hugger it need overall system rebuild which increases cost. apple has always been the expensive one. so..doesn't matters for me what so ever.

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possible123

Mar 30 2007, 10:35 PM

Well, I agree on the part by David Pogue. I also have to say that some things are just universal.
Although if you are creative you can come up with many ways to do things, only a few ways will
actually fit the demands of most people.

It would be like suing somebody for making a web browser toolbar and saying that the general
idea of additional toolbars was their idea or something like that. It would be crazy to do such a thing.
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents were created to protect work from being stolen. I'm pretty sure
that we all know that. However, not much is actually being "stolen". These things are just universal.

As we get more advanced, we might think that these thing are not universal, especially with something
like Aero and the funky GUIs. At the end of the day, most of those things are universal.

Now of Apple comes up with something brilliant ( again ), and Windows takes it without much change,
there has to be some complaints there. What Microsoft can do is get inspiration from Apple and make
a better version of Apple's product.

Also, Microsoft would never attempt to hurt Apple furiously like I saw described in an earlier post.
That would just decrease Microsoft's popularity dramatically. Microsoft doing that could have a worse
effect on Microsoft itself than Apple. When Apple gets revenge, Microsoft will be hurt even worse.

Because of the possibility of that happening, Microsoft has to strive to be as angelic as Apple, but Microsoft
is a position where everything that they do can be perceived as evil. Because of that position, Microsoft
is a sitting duck. Let me rephrase that. A rich sitting duck.

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prashrb

Mar 30 2007, 05:46 PM

Even I somehow feel, Vista is if not copy of Mac, is atleast a baby born with Mac's inspiration!

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