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December 12, 2006

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Microsoft gets petty: now they’re ripping off Apple’s icons

Posted Dec. 12, ’06, 6:38 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Rivals

Microsoft Icon Ripoff Just when you thought Microsoft couldn’t sink any lower by copying Apple’s features and sense of style, they steal icons. Seriously guys, don’t you have a staff of artists to come up with stuff like this for you? The stolen image was on this page. It was originally on Apple’s Mac OS X Server page.

Once word of this got out, Microsoft naturally removed the offending image and replaced with its own hastily created version. I can almost understand the repeated use of stock photography featuring Macs instead of Windows PCs (back in the day before Macs couldn’t run Windows without VPC). This is just plain lame. Maybe it’s not a big thing, but at the same time, Microsoft needs to cut it out.


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