Leopard vs. Vista: Who stole what from whom?

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Leopard vs. Vista: Who stole what from whom?

by Jordan Running Aug 10th 2006

Steve Jobs & Co. spent quite a lot of time at Apple's WWDC on Monday talking about Windows Vista. A whole segment of they keynote, in fact, was dedicated to Microsoft's upcoming OS and how much it copies from Apple's OS X. Apple really, really doesn't want you to forget what features it came up with first--but what features did it really come up with first? Lifehacker explored this question the other day, but over at his blog Paul Thurrott has taken an in-depth view of the subject. Of course, Paul Thurrott is a Windows guy and some may be tempted to write him out as a zealot, but he makes a lot of sound points, not all of them in Microsoft's favor. This will probably be the last Win v. Mac post I'll make for awhile, but I'm sure volleys will continue to be fired by both camps.

Tags: apple, leopard, mac, microsoft, osx, Paul Thurrott, PaulThurrott, vista, vs, windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Desistyle3 said 5:27PM on 8-10-2006

Paul Thurrott says that Apple copied Konfabulator, but what about Apple's Desk Accessories? I believe this was the first version of widgets/gadgets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_Accessories

Padriac said 5:46PM on 8-10-2006

"My OS will be completely controlled by your thoughts."

By Paul Thurrot logic I have just invented the thought controlled OS, and when somebody eventually comes through with it i can say I invented it and everyone stole it from me. Even If MS made some half-assed claim about search capabilities over 5 years ago, they still have not delivered on it. The ball officially left their court.

"Great artists ship."

Lphant said 5:59PM on 8-10-2006

I think that Hasefrock stole all :D

Lphant said 6:00PM on 8-10-2006

I think that Hasefrock stole all :D

Kevin M. said 4:15PM on 8-11-2006

It was all stolen from Linux.

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