I really wish I could embed New York Times videos in posts here at MacUser. If I could, David Pogue’s proof of how Vista is not a copy of Mac OS X would be sitting prominently on your screen. Alas, I can not and you’ll have to visit the site yourself. Apologies if the link ends up incorrect, the Times doesn’t make their URLs particularly intuitive.
I will admit that many of the features I heard about made me scratch my head a bit. For example, Paul Thurrott, Windows fan #1 (he has the card to prove it), regularly touts Vista’s instant live searching as a great new feature. It may be new to the core, but Mac OS X has Spotlight and many companies have made third-party solutions to do the same thing for Windows for quite some time now. Anyway, watch the video. It made me chuckle.
Erm.. ok my brain my explode now... It's in the humour section here, cool, but please I'm right in thinking this guy isn't serious right!!?
Funny video, Pogue. I wonder which system he uses?
Wow. Pogues piece was either brilliantly ironic or completely mental... I'm confused.
Very Daily Show
C'mon, Pogue regularly hosts a panel at Macworld Expo and used to write for Macworld magazine. He's totally biased! :)
Good on Pogue for puttingthe truth behind Microsoft's "innovations" on a national scale, but Pogue didn't mention where OS X's Widgets came from to begin with, nor Spotlight, or older stuff like Sherlock.
I learned this all from one of Steve Jobs' keynote presentations this past summer, but it's still true. I have to dissent, though. Pogue's article was more Colbert Report, than Daily Show.
Hah! That "V for Vista" at the end cracked me up.
Regarding top-right vs bottom-left: he forgot to mention that you can move the task bar to the right side of the screen, putting the start menu in the top-right corner.
lmao when I read this post, I thought for a second that it was really about how Vista didn't copy Mac OS X! Hilarious video!
"Pogue didn't mention where OS X's Widgets came from to begin with"
They came originally from Apple. Then Konfab stole them after Apple d/c'd them. Then Apple stole them from Konfab. So the original widget idea is an Apple idea. STOP SPREADING FUD