Steve Jobs and all his other Mac workers love to make fun of Microsoft always saying they steal things from them. What a total lie. Microsoft has saved Apple countless times especially in 1997 thanks to Bill Gates. Apple was almost forced into bankruptcy and now to save themselves they make all this new icrap. ipods and iphones, etc. Seriously without Windows I believe mac would fail. Microsoft has made all sorts of programs for Mac. Micorsoft office and so on. And Apple finally realized how many people like Windows that they now make it so you can run Windows on a Mac. Why would you want to do that when you can go and buy a windows for less then half the price of a Mac. A true computer fan can see that Apple is struggling.
Anyway back on subject. Windows Vista is NOT a complete rip of Mac OS X and I have proof!!!
2007-09-24 06:30:07 · 3 answers · asked by UCLA kid, Go BRUINS!!! 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Microsoft IMPLMENTED search back in 2002, before Apple did
Safari didn't invent integrated RSS. What idiots.
Windows Mail = Outlook from 1995.
Calendar was implmetned in OUTLOOK at the same time, too.
iPhoto = MS Picture it! From 1999
Steve Jobs ADMITTED at Macconference that they copied the Windows user feature.
Also mac is just a big copy of Xerox!!!
2007-09-24 06:30:57 · update #1
Your proof that Vista is not a rip-off of Mac OSX is only skin deep. Peak beneath the surface and you realize both OSes are completely different. Most people rate an OS on appearance, and that only makes up about 5% of its code.
Without Microsoft, Apple WAS ready to become the de-facto OS for the home user. They enjoyed this position for some time in pre Windows 3.1 days. Microsoft won the popularity war because it catered to its developers where Apple didn't. The result was all the programmers came to Windows, and so did all the software, and now it had momentum to continue being the platform leader.
Apple is not struggling. Granted, they'll never take Microsoft down, but Microsoft will never take them down either and both companies know it. Behind the scenes they are best friends, they share technology and voluntarily bound themselves in agreements which prevent the other from usurping their marketplaces. Apple doesn't want to compete with Microsoft; they are quite content with their iNiche market.
Edit: Dj Fear is correct, the OS he refers to was Amiga. The idea of a graphical OS had long been proposed, Amiga first did it, Apple did it better, and Windows usually plays catch-up.
2007-09-24 09:54:36 · answer #1 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a geat write-up about this in a A+ cert book talking about how both companies actually copied an old xerox OS from 1971. This was the first gui os, but it was never available to the public. Microsoft and Apple did research on this OS and incorporated many of it's features into windows and apple OS.
2007-09-24 06:39:13 · answer #2 · answered by djfear123 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft is a copy of IBM...and IBM is coming back, promising to run on Mac.
Microsoft is struggling to stay in the running, and is fast running out of breath. It has become a couch potato.
2007-09-24 08:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋