Microsoft admits Vista borrows heavily from OS X… (sort of)
Posted by Lab Rat
Macenstein reader Sweet Pee pointed us to a Flickr posting claiming to provide unneeded proof that Microsoft’s upcoming Vista OS is a blatant rip off of Apple’s OS X. During a Vista beta install, an astute tester noticed that the program creates a temporary “Panther� folder. It appears that one of Microsoft’s programmers felt the sweet pangs of guilt, and felt compelled to admit his company was ripping-off Mac OS X’s more distinctive features via this “message in a bottle� cry for help.
After all the “official” 6G iPod photos, I don’ tthink I can ever trust anything on Flickr ever again.
Still pretty funny.
And “Panther” instead of “Tiger” shows they were ripping off OS X for years.
wtf
that looks like “parther” or “phrther”, not panther.
You must be visually impaired. It clearly says panther.
This:
if you cannot see that it says Panther – you need glasses. and who cares anyways..
on the flickr post it says panther but the image here it does look like parther
if you go to the flickr website and blow it up it does say panther.
get a fucking life
There is also something to be said about random named folders, it’s quite possible that it has nothing to do with Apple. Perhaps Panther is an upcoming feature for Vista? Or perhaps it’s all a hoax? Or maybe that’s just the name of a system folder, unoriginally named, yes, proof that MS is ‘borrowing’ from OSX, I’m not so sure.
History proved that Microsoft usually use other’s ideas. Maybe success of Microsoft laies behind this simple rule.