Found Footage: CNN asks Bill Gates about copying Mac OS X

Guys!! Chill!!!

Imitation is the best flattery.

Well considering he mentions how it makes it easier to do stuff...like burning a DVD that's already been easy on mac's. He said parental controls have never been done....maybe so in windows but on mac they have. He didn't offer any good rebuttals. They just ignored the question and placed what was new in windows. To me....he was ashamed that people realized it and it came out in the interview.

no it's not wrong to copy something someone else has been doing for years, but the fact M$ is supposed to be the best software company in the industry and they can't come out with something original (let alone make their software secure enough) is appalling. they use their huge budgets to become dominate THAT is wrong you can't just throw money at things at expect innovation. it also stinks their trying to call stuff apple have done for years their own innovation

apple didn't steal from xerox, read here
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=xerox

Why bash Vista? Because Vista & MS need bashing. Please.

There's a big difference between being influenced and being derivative. Every rock and roll guitar player might have ripped off Chuck Berry, but if every rock and roll guitar player also claimed Chuck Berry's songs were their own, and forced record store clerks at gunpoint to sell copies of their recordings of those songs, they shouldn't very well be considered songwriters or popular recording artists.

Why keep bashing Vista? If XP and Vista are so horrible, why are over 90% of all computers using Microsoft products? OS X may be better, but it is now, and always will be in a lot less places. Steve Jobs may be better at making OSes, but isn't nearly as good at marketing as Gates, thats why Microsoft dominates the OS industry.

OMGWTFBBQ?

Parental contols are an innovation, possible only in Windows Vista (Home Ultimate Express Optimized [...])?!

Bill Gates may be charitable with his money, but it doesn't make him any less of a liar.

@24 -- sorry, my ignorance of windows OS is showing, i guess. i've only ever used macs.

but the crowd must've thought the same thing, because bill paused long enough to give jon stewart a bit of the ol' evil eye, and everyone either laughed of went "wooaahhhh" at the same time.

OK, nevermind what he said ("uh... uh.." utter trainwreck) but look at his nonverbal communication. Clearly he's uncomfortable in his chair. It was a square question answered with a mushy attempt at tossing out "buzz words."

These guys need to hire a diplomatic speaker who relates to the general public instead of sending Monkey Boy Ballmer and Geek Speak Bill out to do PR spots.

-N

He said the parental controls is a brand new thing? Has he even seen Mac OS X?

ahh... I had flying toasters on my 486 running DOS 6 and Windows 3.11. So it wasn't Mac only...