microsoft is a biter
WindOSX Longhorn: the great wait.
The bulk of Gates’ speech covered Longhorn’s visual and organizational features — which Apple CEO Steve Jobs described last week as “shamelessly” copying his company’s Mac OS X operating system.
“They can’t even copy fast,” Jobs said at his company’s shareholder meeting.
Indeed, many of the features that Gates demonstrated Monday have been a part of the Mac OS since it was released in March 2001.
And some of Longhorn’s organizational tools, such as faster searching and virtual folders that populate with documents based on the information they contain, are expected to be part of the version of Mac OS X that goes on sale Friday.
“Microsoft will have a year and a half to add some bells and whistles to allow it to claim some differentiation,” said Dwight Davis, an analyst at the research firm Summit Strategies.
That’s like drawing a smiley face on a pile of shit and telling us it’s the Mona Lisa.
