with this ….
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000894-TP6

and you’ll see that microsoft copied apple

we’re comparing ms windows based products to OSX based products. there’s a vast difference in quality that still exists to this day. microsoft recently released an operating system that finally works the way it was designed in principal. many of these technologies have been used by osx users like myself for close to a decade.

i’m biased and perhaps a bit simplistic. i use osx at home and i work in an office that uses ms windows. my computing issues happen at work. my wife runs a business that uses mac based products. they have little to no operating system issues in their office. her tech support is on a per call basis whereas in my office, we require a fully committed IT contract that is substantially more expensive than the arrangement my wife has in her office.

i don’t know how you can truly remain objective with regards to ms based products when apple based products to this day clearly outpace them in every aspect. it’s not even close. all things considered, i think the guys here at the appleblog do a great job.

It’s not easy to reverse the mistake made. They should move forward now and really make the products better. That’s the only way to success. There is no benefit and labeling things and calling sheep a cow, etc.

Tell this to the people at MS who designed and marketed the Zune.

Most sales people and designers would say…The marketplace does encourages most of the evolution!

30 years of real evolution would result in much more OS diversification — to exploit the needs of different niches, not the homogenization we see now. Despite the protestations of the fanboys; there’s not really all that much different between OSX and Windows. If there was, it wouldn’t be so easy to switch.

We haven’t had 30 years of OS evolution, we’ve had 30 years of refinement of the same WIMP model (window/icon/menu/mouse). The marketplace doesn’t encourage real evolution, short term focus encourages climbing local maxima rather than exploring the space of what’s possible.

For real OS experiments you have to look outside the paradigm; OLPC’s Sugar, Squeak, Amiga, Be, Plan 9, Jazz, Lifestreams, Jeff Raskin’s HUI, even Emacs– for different ways of interacting with a computer environment.

I’m not saying all these are radically different; but each offer different metaphors, and that’s where you’ll find evolution.

Trust me, I’m a journalist.