Why Did Windows Vista Steal Everything The iMac Has?

Answer 1

lol.. you need to learn a bit of history..

1) who is a share holder in apple ;-)

2)read up on Xerox and GUI's that pre-date WAY before apple.

also there are videos on youtube about this.

it's a petty argument anyway.. who cares as long as it benefits the end user.

if i wanted to be so petty, but i am not that bothered. why does apple mac's use intel chips now ;-)

i'm neither a mac or pc evanglist.. i use both + linux.

Answer 2

The answer is really simpler than most but you do need to know some history as suggested above.
The real thing is that if you want to do a task in a certain way there is generally only one tool to do it. You don't use a screwdriver to pound in a nail and should not use a hammer to drive a screw. So if you want a gui interface with a pointer device then you have something that looks like Windows or Mac. Everything else is just eyecandy and marketing fluff.
One thing to remember is that to make money you have to constantly have something new for the consumer. Most of the real innovation is behind the scenes deep in the operating system code, not out on the user interface. So to make it look like you are doing innovative things you made cosmetic changes so the user feels that they actually got something for their $300 or so. The next upgrade to the eye candy is what Apple did with iMac and what Vista is. What you see on the screen is less important than what is going on in security, availability and reliability.
I work on mainframes and there is a new release every 6 months but you never see that in the user interface. That stays the same because mainframe users are more sophisticated than PC users and understand that the real meat is under the covers, and it is costly to re-educate the users to learn and get used to a new interface. So you don't change it.

So bottom line the hammer was developed in many places around the world to solve a simple problem. There are many kinds of hammers but in the end they are all the same. The GUI interface you see on PC's solves a simple problem no matter if it is on a Mac, KDE, Gnome or Windows. The only differences are the Icons and how they interface to the user and that is marketing.

Answer 3

i HATE Vista!!!

i bought a new PC the end of last year with Vista pre-installed!

Hardly ANY of my software would work!!

Even games like Sims 2 wouldnt work!!!

Microsoft tried to make a good new OP, but instead messed up the OP World!!!

Answer 4

To give windows users the cool things that mac has

Answer 5

i like the answer above me

basically yes, widgets wee in osx long before they were built into windows. the 3d window sorting in vita is like expose in osx. integrated search was in osx long before windows as well. so yea the did steal it

Answer 6

to make money, ask microsoft....