Microsoft manager admits to copying 'Mac look and feel,' MS denies

Jordan: Because the space is still usable? The dock itself is only as big as you want it to be. Plus, the portion that takes up space doesn't have to be opaque when it's visible.

I respected the honesty, the denials just make me scornful. It's pretty obvious they were inspired by OSX. I'm not even sure copying the Dock was a good idea frankly. The Dock aint so hot.

Please, Win7 is modeled after OS X. Even Ray Charles can see the similarities.

Not sure why this appeared so highly in Google Readers sort by magic view as it really is a poor write up. The dock isn't even Apples invention, they copied it too!

I just wish geeks would accept that almost nothing is original in UI design anymore. The best you can hope for is an improvement on what went before.

The new taskbar in Windows 7 is a huge improvement over anything that went before it. I initially hated it being so used to XP's horrendous taskbar for years but now I can't imagine working without it.

As for OSX being superior to Windows 7, if it is better, it's not better by much. Both OS's are now so mature as to do exactly what most people want most of the time. Both can be tweaked to better suit the more geeky crowd and the end result is two products that just work well.

In modern 3D games, it is expected that each game will copy ideas from the best of the previous games and hopefully improve on them. End result, we get better games. Lets apply that to OS's and applications and be done with the childishness.

I must actually say that I find the Win7 taskbar to be looking a lot more like the Linux/KDE taskbar then the Dock.

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I dunno...I personally like that the dock doesn't force me to lose screen space when it's visible. And I've found that keeping it on the side of the screen rather than the bottom works rather nicely.

I didn't bother to read the article, but isn't it a jump to go from, "create a mac look and feel" to "copying mac look and feel"?


Might be semantics, but one is not like the other, not entirely.


and tuaw, cut it with the bullshit full page ads. The more I see them the less I'm coming here, they're annoying.

I'm a Mac, and Windows 7 was my idea.

"While I am glad that people at Microsoft are finally accepting the superiority of OS X,"

I can't imagine where people get the idea that Mac users are elitists ...

The new task bar in Windows 7 goes a long way toward emulating the Dock's functionality. And are you saying the task bar in Windows Vista and prior hasn't been in the way of anything?