Hello Microsoft,
As if your (completely awful) Windows didn’t improve (finally) by lately copying a competent operating system done by Apple.
Shove it, Microsoft. You’r done.
You must be watching too many conspiracy movies like Pirates of Silicon Valley. Get your facts straight about the licensing agreement both companies had and the lawsuit Apple lost because of it. And the PARC project. That too.
It cuts both ways. Bill Gates certainly didn’t come up with certain technologies, but he did have the vision about how to use them to create value and execute on those ideas. Apple and Microsoft were similar companies in the sense that they has certain core competencies that they excelled at, but that left many areas they were terrible at. And they are both still around today, because of the successes in the areas they excelled at.
How is Microsoft “done?” They have complete and total dominance of the desktop/PC market. They account for 1/3 of the worldwide web server market and greater than 60% of the general server market. The only market in which they fail to dominate is mobile, but even then, Android dominates that market.
This article is humorous in the sense that 20 years ago Apple fanboys used to say “Windows 95 is Apple X” (where X is the flavor of Apple out at the time). I was too young to argue or care, but one could say that Windows 95 had its similarities to the Apple OS GUI. Here we are, 20 years later, and Apple is being accused of “ripping off Microsoft.” I applaud Apple for their efforts, and I think the sniping between camps is silly.
In the operating system universe, the only OS I don’t trust is Android because it’s a Google product. Google has proven time and time again that it’s not looking out for the best interests of the customer while Microsoft and Apple have provided consistent product lines over the years. Sadly, Apple’s appeal is that their entire platform from hardware to OS to application store is proprietary. This has worked to their advantage in that their platforms are stable and solid workhorses, but the cost is astronomical compared to a PC.
And for all of the Apple “engineers” who claim their IT offices are almost solely Apple products, I’d like to point out that in an overwhelming majority of cases, engineers are using Parallels to run a Windows desktop. The joke around our office is that Apple devices are just expensive terminals. Not a single engineer with whom I work uses an Apple device natively. They’re all doing business productivity and automation tasks on Windows VMs/RDP.