This is a couple weeks old, but I find it funny.

[notwithouther]

Even The New York Times in its official review of Vista says it's a ripoff.

Are they really even trying anymore?

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

((scroll down and find the link to the Vista review))

Comments

[chaostar]

[sarcasm] Thanks for the unbiased review. [/sarcasm]

Yes vista incorporates a few superficial features that are already available on Mac OS, but that's the point of a new OS. Add new features that people like. That's business. Everyone does it (even apple hence virtual desktops).

Apple takes the cake though. Apple will never be able to offer what windows has, that's why they made windows bootable on their own architecture.

[notwithouther]

There's offering what people all ready like and then there's thinking up new things that people would like. There's no forward thinking if you just steal from real innovation, the innovative company will just offer more original worthwhile features on the next update that doesn't take five and a half years. Lastly, you know why Apple offers Windows is because of third party software that can only be run on Windows because of said third parties trying to get to the most amount of people with the least amount of programming. No one can honestly say they like Microsoft, they just like the software provided by other companies.

[chaostar]

"There's offering what people all ready like and then there's thinking up new things that people would like. There's no forward thinking if you just steal from real innovation, the innovative company will just offer more original worthwhile features on the next update that doesn't take five and a half years."

I agree. That's what I was trying to get at with Leopard's 'new' feature of 'spaces', which has been available on unix/linux systems for years. No need to pick on Microsoft when Apple does the exact same thing.

[notwithouther]

While I will admit that is a taken feature, that is but one of many features that Apple has thought up in a year, while Microsoft took five years to steal the many ideas that Apple had come up with on it's own during that time. I guess they were just waiting long enough to find enough features they liked in order to call it an actual upgrade.

[turkey_sandwich]

Everybody steals from everybody else and thats whats making the products better.

One of the reasons Mac users hold this idea that Microsoft has no originality is that Mac users are only exposed to videos such as this. They recieve an incredibly biased list of features and are left with the impression that there are no others. Vista is full of awesome stuff. One of my favorites is the fact that you can plug in a USB thumbdrive and with the click of a button Vista will use the freespace on it as extra memory. I could carry around a 1GB on my keychain and give any computer I sit down at an instant speed boost. That's something you can't find anywhere else, but it's a cool feature, so if other OSs are smart they'll copy it.

[soonforgotten]

Wow, you are back in action! It surprises me to see posts from you.