Microsoft steals yet another element from MacOSX
http://microsoftgadgets.com/
Dashboard for Vista!
Pathetic that a large company like Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore and just steals ideas. Not that Apple doesn't steal....they "borrowed" the Dashboard idea from [forgot the name. darn!] but I think Microsoft steals more because they're simply copying it from their competitors OS.
How long before MSLife 07 hits the street?
Dashboard for Vista!
Pathetic that a large company like Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore and just steals ideas. Not that Apple doesn't steal....they "borrowed" the Dashboard idea from [forgot the name. darn!] but I think Microsoft steals more because they're simply copying it from their competitors OS.
How long before MSLife 07 hits the street?
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iWork is a copy of MS Office.
It's not like whatever they "stole" was original to begin with...
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
Dashboard was stolen from Konfabulator.
iWork is a copy of MS Office.
It's not like whatever they "stole" was original to begin with...
There are applications which precede the ones you list. Very few ideas are truly "original"
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
Dashboard was stolen from Konfabulator.
That would be wrong.
Originally posted by the cool gut
That would be wrong.
Hehe...don't you just hate the computer n00bs that think Konfabulator is original?
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
iWork is a copy of MS Office.
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
Dashboard was stolen from Konfabulator.
iWork is a copy of MS Office.
Konfabulator was a rip off of Apples desktop widgets (with a different name) from back in the 80s
MS office was a ripoff of Lotus, Excel=123, exchange/outlook=notes
Windows was a rip-off of Mac which was a ripoff* of Xerox PARC
Linux is a ripoff of UN*X
the new iMac (g5, intel) styling is a ripoff of the Gateway Profile II from the late 90s, that, coincidentally was an attempt to rip off the iMac (g3), which was a ripoff in style of the original mac, which looked a lot like a dumb-terminal from the computer-as-big-as-your-house days.
These days and for a lot of the last 20 odd years, tech has just been a clusterfuck of copycats, but each copy leads to a little more innovation
*Apple had Xerox' blessing.
Also: the existance of TCP/IP in windows was a ripoff of Novell, and an effort by MS to kill IPX once and for all. which it has for the most part done (THANK GOD).
Originally posted by a_greer
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*Apple had Xerox' blessing.
A blessing for which Xerox was paid by Apple in the coin of the realm.
Originally posted by Mr. Me
A blessing for which Xerox was paid by Apple in the coin of the realm.
I was merely pointing out that in the whole list of copys, the Xerox thing was the only one where the original creator let it go.
Originally posted by a_greer
MS office was a ripoff of Lotus
And Lotus was a ripoff of Visicalc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visicalc
Originally posted by lundy
And Lotus was a ripoff of Visicalc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visicalc
I thought they were a rip off of something, I just couldnt think of what
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
It's not like whatever they "stole" was original to begin with...
There, I summed up this entire nit-picking thread in one sentence. Incredible.
The whole point is that Microsoft seems to mimic Apple's roadmap on the short term here. Of course everything is a rip-off from [insert name here]. That's not the point.
The question is why the dominant OS developer mimics the "small fish" when they're so big: they could spend much more on real innovation!
Originally posted by iPeon
The point here is that M$ copies/mimics Apple. Always! If it weren't for Apple, there would have been no M$.
No, Microsoft got its start by providing the BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 kit computer. This software was based on code that Bill Gates acquired by fishing paper tape from the trash at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Originally posted by Whyatt Thrash
I don't know if you guys think you're debating me here, but to quote myself:
There, I summed up this entire nit-picking thread in one sentence. Incredible.
True, and if I may quote myself in an attempt to silence the "they copyed us!" flamewar:
...for a lot of the last 20 odd years, tech has just been a clusterf**k of copycats...
Every tech gadget be it hardware or software is just a new spin on an old idea.
But oh no, none of the features of Mac OS X can ever be featured in XP! That would be stealing!
What is so hilarious, is that they had a sidebar in the very early versions of Longhorn, and they didn't know what the hell to do with it. All they had was a clock and a calendar. The sidebar was eventually scrapped.
Along come Apple widgets - which aren't just widgets but a development platform. They put up a website about them and how to make them.
All of a suddent - here come "Gadgets" similar name, exact same concept, up goes the website, on and on and on.
The same thing happened with Exposé - Microsoft wants to demonstrate the graphics powers of Longhorn builds, and demonstrates their OS, with Windows "flying" around the screen - doing absolutely nothing productive "this is just a demonstration of the possibilities" they say.
A year or so later, Apple introduces Exposé, the biggest breakthrough for an operating system in terms of managing open windows.
"Flip 3D" is now in Vista. It's pretty pathetic too.
Meanwhile, MS flips out at the naming of "Lindows" and completely freaks out, suing them for "confusing consumers" They end up paying Lindows hundreds of millions to change their name.
Microsoft really doesn't have a clue about anything or what consumers want, and I would say are over-dependant on ripping off other ideas.
Of course, this is not surprising given that Gates ran around Redmond shrieking at the Windows team to "Make it like a Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaac!!! I want it to look like a Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaac!!!" over and over after he saw the Mac 128K.