Comments on: Windows Copies the Mac? Shhh, That’s Our Little Secret!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:05:46 +0000

A lot of people are stating that Macintosh copied things that windows did. It's more like Apple got ideas, and spawned a better one from what Windows did. Apple was the first to have applications have a launch icon in that bottom bar (OSX 10.0) weren't they? And they didn't copy windows media center, they wanted to make it better (front row). They didn't like that remoted needed 30+ buttons, so they designed theirs to only need 6 buttons.

As far as it is, windows likes to take an idea and copy it to a point where it doesn't seem like an exact copy. But still, everyone says it's a crappy copy. Meanwhile, macintosh gets ideas and innovates. They don't copy, they innovate.

According to GUI, I heard that Apple bought it from Xerox not stole, so that needed to be settled as well.

Unix is also 10x more stable than windows core. The registry in Windows sucks, because it's too corruptable. And windows is still DLL hell. Good job windows making your GUI aesthetically acceptable. Now work on your actual operating system. As far as I'm concerned, since windows 98, everything has just been a graphic redo for windows. Apple has looked nearly the same since OSX, because they're not too concerned with graphics. They get their stuff working better, not just looking better.

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By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:38:22 +0000

OS9 was terrible. I remember how animations on a web page would stop when you held the mouse button down, and that awful menu bar task manager. Thankfully OSX coped Windows 95 and started showing running programs along the bottom of the screen. They even copied the ‘minimise’ feature, before that all we could do was make the window show only its title bar.

By: tom b

tom b — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:57 +0000

“Nobody complained when Apple finally added proper multitasking to Mac OS in 2001, that it had been ‘done before’ now did they? Windows moved away from cooperative multitasking with Windows 95.”

There’s a difference between checking a check box on your Windows 95 product brochure that says “multitasking” and actually implementing multitasking WELL, as you see in UNIX-base systems, like OSX.

And, as for stability, multitasking or not, I had better up-time with non-UNIX Mac OS 8 than I did with Win 95. Your mileage may vary.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:47:19 +0000

Nobody complained when Apple finally added proper multitasking to Mac OS in 2001, that it had been ‘done before’ now did they? Windows moved away from cooperative multitasking with Windows 95.

By: Bouke Timbermont

Bouke Timbermont — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:00:21 +0000

Of course Windows copies stuff of the mac, as does OSX copy from windows (I couldn’t believe the semitransparent menubar and reflective dock when Leopard came out for example: those are clearly ‘flashy’ elements answering to Windows Vista’s Aero)

But I really don’t think that’s a problem. It’s even necessary to have good OS’s! Where would we be if nobody copied the GUI for example? Or multitasking? Or the interface of a browser? Sometimes there is just a ‘right’ way to do something, and all you can do then is copying it: otherwise your product stays behind and becomes obsolete.

By: tengeta

tengeta — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:08:09 +0000

Ever since Microsoft stole Apples stolen Xerox crap, its just been a game of back and fourth fun.

By: Daylen

Daylen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:07:15 +0000

“[Windows 7] it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform…”

Seems strange that the product manager is saying that, when OS X is built on UNIX and when Windows is not. Haven’t we come to accept UNIX as the de facto standard in stability?

By: John Baxter

John Baxter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:42 +0000

Windows copies some of Mac. Mac copies some of Windows. It has been that way for years. Nothing new here except the amazingly public statement about it.