It may be the biggest snafu Microsoft’s seen since Vista. In an interview with PCR, a British trade publication, a Microsoft manager implied that Windows 7 was based on the anti-Windows itself: Mac OS X. The manager’s name is Simon Aldous. …
Read Original Story: Windows 7 Inspired By Mac? Here's the Guy Who Said So – PC World
Computerworld – Microsoft yesterday disowned a company executive who said his company’s Windows 7 was inspired by Apple’s Mac operating system, calling his comments "uninformed" and "inaccurate." In an interview published Tuesday, …
Read Original Story: Microsoft rebukes exec for Mac inspiration comment – Computerworld
SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Microsoft has finally admitted that it was inspired by some of the things in Apple’s Mac OS X. Talking to PCR magazine, Microsoft’s partner group manager Simon Aldous said that one of the things that people said about …
Read Original Story: Microsoft was inspired by Apple's OS X – Inquirer
C’mon now, Brandon. Sure, we’ll all accept that the Windows 7 design was well thought out and tested by Microsoft itself, and has some unique features. But are you going to try and convince the world that the designers of Windows 7 took a clean-room …
Read Original Story: Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much – InformationWeek
Yesterday there appeared an interview with a Microsoft group manager who claimed that Microsoft copied the “Mac look and feel in terms of graphics” in Windows 7. This was later denied by Microsoft’s communications manager. So, which is it? …
Read Original Story: Did Microsoft copy Mac OS for Windows 7? Yes … uh, wait … no … – ZDNet
It’s not like this sort of thing has never happened to someone at Microsoft before: a moment of clarity and candidness which may actually be close to, if not exactly, the truth, …
Read Original Story: Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac – BetaNews
A Microsoft executive was quoted in an interview as saying "what we’ve tried to do with Windows 7…is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics". The comments, by partner group manager Simon Aldous, appeared in UK computing trade magazine PCR. …
Read Original Story: Windows 7 borrowed 'look' of Mac – BBC News
By Jeremy | November 13, 2009 If you’ve already started holiday shopping, you’ve no doubt realized that purchasing a computer is more daunting of a task than ever before. Dozens of companies making hundreds of models with thousands of possible …
Read Original Story: Holiday Gift Guide: Get them something they will love. Get a Mac – Notebooks.com
Microsoft Corp. has moved promptly to reject the remarks made by one of its executives that Microsoft’s latest OS avatar Windows 7 user interface was modelled on Apple Mac OS. The software giant rushed in to respond to the comment of one of its …
Read Original Story: Microsoft Shrugs Of Suggestions That Windows 7 Is Modelled On Mac – ITProPortal
Computerworld – Apple on Wednesday issued its second security update in three days, patching seven vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that the company fixed two months ago for most Mac users. …
Read Original Story: Apple issues week's second patch set, fixes 7 Safari flaws – Computerworld
