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November 18, 2009

Microsoft’s internal war in the supposed “inspiration” of the new Windows 7 in Mac

Filed under: Technology — Tags: , , , , — getlost @ 2:03 pm

On 11 November Simon Aldous, a Microsoft executive, told the PCR Internet portal that graphic design of Windows 7 was inspired by the latest Mac OS, known as Leopard. Hours later, Brandon LeBlanc, director of communications for aion kinah, discredited his partner in ensuring that their statements were “inaccurate and uninformed.”

At 10 am on Wednesday PCR portal on its website an interview with Simon Aldous, chief executive of the Redmond company, which admitted that the new design that looks the latest Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, was inspired by “the style of Apple.”

At 7 pm that same day, Brandon LeBlanc, director of communications for Windows, ‘posted them’ in the Windows blog an article discrediting Aldous. “A few inaccurate statements about the origin of the design of Windows 7 was inspired by Mac OS X has been around the Internet all day.

Unfortunately they came from a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of the design of aion kinah. I hate to say this one of ours but his statements were inaccurate and uninformed, “he wrote.

The similarity between the two operating systems and more particularly on the fact that Microsoft was inspired by Apple’s OS has already been discussed in the media like The New York Times.

Walter Mossberg, an analysis on the new Microsoft operating system in the New York daily said “there are many parallels between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, for example the new W7 taskbar that is similar to the Mac but with some improvements .

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