Apple vs. Microsoft: Top 20 Stolen OS Ideas
Linked by snydeq on Mon 12th Oct 2009 15:24 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces InfoWorld's John Rizzo chronicles the 20 most significant ideas and features Microsoft and Apple have stolen from each other in the lead up to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 'Some features were stolen so long ago that they've become part of the computing landscape, and it's difficult to remember who invented what.' Windows 7's Task Bar and Aero Peek come to mind as clear appropriations of Mac OS X's Dock and Expose. Apple's cloning of the Windows address bar in 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the path bar is another obvious 'inspiration.' But the borrowing goes deeper, Rizzo writes, providing a screenshot tour of Microsoft's biggest grabs from Mac OS X and Apple's most significant appropriations of Windows OS ideas and functionality.
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2009-05-20

Most of your comments have a score of at least 2 as soon as you post them. Almost all of mine have a score of 1, no matter how ingenious I sound.

Or is that a default, like some veteran bonus?


I've wondered the same thing: sometimes when I post the comment is automatically 2 "points", sometimes 1. I don't know if that correlates with the total amount of posts you've made or something.

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