{"id":40221,"date":"2009-11-11T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123728"},"modified":"2009-11-11T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:08:05","slug":"windows-7-was-in-fact-inspired-by-os-x-says-some-random-microsoft-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40221","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 was in fact inspired by OS X, says some random Microsoft manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAnyone that has used both Windows 7<\/a> and OS X<\/a> can see the similarities. It’s clear that some Windows 7 parts were sampled from OS X, but now there is confirmation from Microsoft’s partner group manager, Simon Aldous, that OS X was indeed the mold all along.<\/p>\n

PCR-Online interview<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it\u2019s very graphical and easy to use. What we\u2019ve tried to do with Windows 7 \u2013 whether it\u2019s traditional format or in a touch format \u2013 is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics. We\u2019ve significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it\u2019s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m thinking that last sentence could be debated seeing as OS X is built on top of Unix, but whatever. Windows 7 works great and that’s all I really care about.<\/p>\n

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Anyone that has used both Windows 7 and OS X can see the similarities. It’s clear that some Windows 7 parts were sampled from OS X, but now there is confirmation from Microsoft’s partner group manager, Simon Aldous, that OS X was indeed the mold all along. PCR-Online interview, One of the things that people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}