Vista's a Copy. There I've said it!
"Can I say that I think Vista is a copy of Mac OSX? Can I say that? Will I go to jail? I mean, it's what anyone who knows what they are talking about thinks it's a copy. I can't say it on the TV, I know that much! but maybe I can say it here in my blog? Can't I? Damn, everyone's gone really quiet."
Writes UK Technology journalist and MacBook user Jason Bradbury in his latest blog.
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I see my future. I’m in D Wing Maximum security. I’m in my cell with Big Eddie who wears a hair net but is otherwise very scary. ‘What you in for slaphead?’ he asks. ‘I said Microsoft Vista is a copy of OSX.’ Eddie looks visibly shocked. He looks at the ground and shuffles his feet; it’s clear he’s got me pegged as the new D Wing daddy.
Why can’t Microsoft come out and say ‘Okay. We had a meeting and we all agreed that XP is a bit pants and that what Mac are doing with OSX is so much more user friendly, reliable and secure. So we said to our design team… can you copy it… but not copy it?
Why can’t they just come out and say that? Most of the computer buying public wouldn’t give a monkeys and the rest of us would feel happier about buying into it if it was described as ‘Vista: a really good copy of OSX’.
I wish I could have been in on the meetings where they analysed the widgets system within OSX and copied it. The meeting where the design guy said ‘I know. We’ll make ‘em exactly the same, but we’ll change the name to ‘Gadgets’. ‘It’s got the same amount of letters and it kinda means the same thing.’
Or the meeting where they copied the F9 key function in Mac OSX where the programs you’re using come up as floating boxes. ‘I know,’ says the guy who came up with the ‘Gadgets’ moniker, ‘we’ll copy it… but we’ll turn the boxes on a slight angle!’ ‘Brilliant, says his mate, ‘no-one well ever know.’
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