In the battle between Windows and Mac OS X, we've rounded up 10 features that Apple developed first, only to have them borrowed by Microsoft.
7. Saved searches: Smart folders
Smart folders, which first appeared in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in early 2005, are actually virtual folders that show the results of searches.
Microsoft took the idea and created Saved Searches in Windows Vista. In the OS' current versions, the two are similar in concept and in use. Both appear in the left pane of windows and act like folders.
8. Network shares automatically appearing in left sidebar
With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple started placing autodiscovered network file shares in the sidebar at left.
Microsoft must have liked the idea, because it added the feature in Windows Vista, dumping the Network Neighborhood of many previous versions.
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@ Stonkey said: Stonkey If theres updates every day that makes me feel unsafe that they havent built a solid OS thats safe
Matt said: I woulndt say stole id say Looked and improved on You cant say they stole it because there not all that similar Yer maybe they have similar functions but you could say OS X copied Windows by being an operating system
Stonkey said: Come over to LINUX and use a good operating system with daily updates if requiredWindows will always be an easy target to hack making it cumbersomely slowwith patches not to mention the cost
PC user said: While you have plenty of different range of PC computers and laptops to choose all Macs are the same and costs a lot more
jtt said: Get yourself an ad blocker eg Adblock plus if you use Firefox They make viewing the web so much better
Ron said: But even without ads the article is as always one column in width Whats needed is a View all option
sick of sites like this said: Adverts adverts and adverts I had to change the page 5 time to read the article becuase of the width and number of articles site barred on my list
David said: You know when a product is doing well when all the so called experts starting nit picking around the edges like this article rather than tell us all about the operating system as a wholeI heard once in reply to the same question the best answer i have heard for a long time and it was thisI dont care if Microsoft copies anything from anyone just as long as it is copied well and from my testing of the RC and from what Ive largely read on the net all the mostly postive comments Microsoft have done an apple and taken features that were copied from others and have improved upon them
Dario said: What about the features stole from windows xp when xp came a long macs OS was in the dark age The dock looked like it was borrowed from windows xps task bar and time machine reminds me some kind of system restore
Win7 is better said: So anyway I prefer Windows 7 At lest all programs would work with it The only one downside is that Windows 7 is still less secure than Mac OS X but I think it is question of time The are more Apple users and they are richer than PC users so they are attracitive to cyberciminals
what the hell is mac os? said: quite a stupid article