For Windows 8, Microsoft Looks To Apple (Leaked data shows Microsoft immitating Apple)

The Var Guy ^ | 07/06/2010 | Dave Courbanou

[SeekAndFind]

[ccmay]

Cargo-cult design, doomed to failure just like the Zune.

[big'ol_freeper]

Makes sense. Apple is the standard by which the industry is judged.

[SeekAndFind]

Cargo-cult design, doomed to failure just like the Zune.

Sigh, what can I say ? That's what they said of Microsoft's many previous incarnation of Windows. I'm still waiting for that empire to fall.

[Ancient Drive]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know...

[frithguild]

The faster we go, the rounder we get - sounds like Windows 1.0 taking GUI from the Micintosh.

[SeekAndFind]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know...

They don't mind flattering Apple, as long as they can continue flattening them some more by grabbing market share.

[The_Victor]

Apple build finished products, not just software. And they implement a Stalinistic control over those products; hardware, software, and content. If Microsoft tries to implement a similar level of control they'll be back in anti-trust court for monopolistic business practices in a heartbeat.

[kevkrom]

Meh, I wouldn’t read too much into it. Computer companies, and especially software companies, “steal” ideas from each other all of the time.

Microsoft would be negligent if they didn’t consider what Apple is doing well that Microsoft isn’t, and frankly, the opposite is true as well.

[RoadTest]

” Microsoft immitating Apple)”

So what’s new? They always have.

[TNoldman]

Microsoft owns a portion of Apple. So why wouldn’t they use Apple Technology?

[TNoldman]

Microsoft owns a portion of Apple. So why wouldn’t they use Apple Technology?

[Keith in Iowa]

ping

[SeekAndFind]

So what’s new? They always have.

The only new thing I'm waiting for really is for APPLE to overcome Microsoft to become the dominant PC OS in the industry. I've heard people admire APPLE for her creativity and innovation for a long time.

This unfortunately, has not translated to dominance the way it has for the less creative Microsoft.

[roadcat]

"It Just Works"

I use both Windows and Macs. But I use Macs 90 percent of the time, because they always work, and work well. And I was a Senior Windows Systems Administrator over hundreds of servers and PCs for many years.

[highimpact]

“Microsoft would be negligent if they didn’t consider what Apple is doing well that Microsoft isn’t, and frankly, the opposite is true as well.”

Very true. Most people don’t know, or choose to forget, that Jobs and Woz (the Apple founders) originally stole the GUI idea from Xerox Park. The fact that they make better machines than PC’s running Windows isn’t because they’re more original, they just have a better quality control system in place.

[Spktyr]

Because they don’t? They sold off all their shares years ago.

[-YYZ-]

Are PCs (laptops and desktops) even that big of a part of Apple’s revenue or profit base anymore? Seems to me like they really make a lot of their money from iPods, iPhones and, now, iPads. Those things sell in vast numbers and generate lucrative spin-off purchases of software and media from Apple’s e-stores.

[tacticalogic]

Apple build finished products, not just software. And they implement a Stalinistic control over those products; hardware, software, and content. If Microsoft tries to implement a similar level of control they'll be back in anti-trust court for monopolistic business practices in a heartbeat.

I've seen accolades about Apples reliability from doing this, and asked if anyone thought the industry would be better off today if Microsoft had adopted that same model early on, instead of writing the OS to be as hardware agnostic as possible and letting the hardware industry develop around it.

So far no one will say they think it would.

[Paradox]

MS has been copying apple since, well since 1984. Everyone copies everyone really. The whole desktop metaphor was laughed at for so many years, I got tired of having to stick up for the Macs..

Of course, now I am sick and tired of the Apple fanboys, but I am glad Apple has made it.