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Apple slams Microsoft Vista for photocopied features
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Apple at its annual World Wide Developers Conference has lashed out against Microsoft for copying
its OS X 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. "Our friends up north spend $5bn a year on research and development," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a reference to Microsoft.
"And yet these days all they seem to be able to do is try and copy Google and Apple. So I guess it’s a good example of how money isn’t everything."
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet pointed to the desktop search technology built into Windows Vista and compared it to the Searchlight light feature in OS X 10.4 Tiger.
"We have this incredible technology under the hood," Serlet told delegates. "After the WinFS debacle, [Microsoft has] been scrambling to understand how to integrate that stuff." Apple slams Microsoft Vista for ‘photocopied’ features - vnunet.com
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