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12 Nov 2009
Microsoft has moved quickly to dismiss comments made by one of its managers earlier this week that the Windows 7 user interface was based on that of the Mac operating system.
In an interview published yesterday on PCR, Microsoft partner group manager Simon Aldous admitted that many people think the Mac OS is "fantastic…very graphical and easy to use".
"What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format – is to create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics," he was reported as saying.
"We’ve significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance."
However, late yesterday Microsoft 's Brandon LeBlanc, who runs the firm's official Windows 7 blog, repudiated Aldous, labelling his comments "inaccurate and uninformed".
"Unfortunately, this came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7," he wrote on the blog. "I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were inaccurate and uninformed."
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Inaccurate and Uninformed!
The idea that M$ could be "very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance" & "Microsoft 's Brandon LeBlanc repudiated Aldous, labelling his comments 'inaccurate and uninformed'" is far more stable than Mac is completely inaccurate & uninformed! There's the inaccuracy for you. More stable than Mac which is built on top of a Unix structure & Windows is more stable than that. If I let myself laugh now I may of course choke to death. What a joke, Windows more stable than Mac. Maybe when Jesus returns to tell the Chrispian leaders they got it wrong then Windows will be more stable than Mac. Remember of course he's not coming back. He's dead & so is Windows. Modelled after Mac's GUI is what they mean realising that Mac got it right & they got it wrong. Btw, I don't like Macs, I just dislike Windows more.
Posted by: Rex Alfie Lee 12 Nov 2009
Microsoft denies Windows 7 is modelled on the Mac OS
So it is then.....
Posted by: mk22 12 Nov 2009