Microsoft going to get eaten alive over Vista's resemblance to OS X

"...With its translucent windows, such comparisons are going to be hard to avoid. But Vista's similarity with OS X goes well beyond window dressing. Certain applications, such as Calendar, Sidebar, and Photo Gallery, appear to be directly, ahem, influenced by similar applications in OS X," Thurrott writes.

It seems that Vista (Originally known, a long time ago as Longhorn) is starting to take shape, it seems to be getting more feature complete, as well slightly more stable. Vista and OSX are different in many ways, the only similarity is the style of the windows, and mabe some interface things taken from OSX. We have to remember that it was Gates who based the windows GUI from the original Mac OS in the 80's; There is no difference here, Microsoft is just taking certain concepts and using them to develop a similar idea, with Microsoft touches. Under the hood, there are many differences, with microsoft with Aero, and Apple with Quartz. In a nutshell, there isn't much to complain about: Apple "borrowed" the gui design from Xerox, and Microsoft from Apple.

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