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#2 Re: Vista Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Wed 7 Feb 2007 at 19:16 I always find these kind of comments about different groups copying desktop look and feel, or browser featuresets, to be a little bit unfair. Sure they might look similar in the end, and sure there might have been some deliberate "inspiration", but at the end of the day most significant leaps in user interface take a long time to mature. I'd imagine that Microsoft started working on their new layouts before the current version of GNOME was available to copy from.. Steve
I always find these kind of comments about different groups copying desktop look and feel, or browser featuresets, to be a little bit unfair.
Sure they might look similar in the end, and sure there might have been some deliberate "inspiration", but at the end of the day most significant leaps in user interface take a long time to mature.
I'd imagine that Microsoft started working on their new layouts before the current version of GNOME was available to copy from..
Steve
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