CNN’s Miles O’Brien interviewed Bill Gates about the debut of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, this morning.
One portion was especially interesting:
O’Brien: Frankly, a lot of what I see here, um, seems to mimic a little bit [Apple’s Mac] OS X. Were you going after a specific look there, the Mac look, or?
MacDailyNews Take: A little bit? Ya think?
Gates: No, no, no. Actually, uh, the, we’re ahead [slight pause] on a lot, uh, there’s whole areas where we’ve innovated like Media Center and tablet, uh, that, uh, no one else is doing and the parental control, that’s the first time that’s been done. Even in this photo area, you know, we’d love to have you compare how we’ve done, make it easy to make a DVD, edit high definition movies.
Snippet of Miles O’Brien’s CNN interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates:
Full video interview here.
MacDailyNews Take: Note Gates’ uncomfortable squirming in his chair, frequent pauses, and “uhs.” Wow.
Gates’ body language reminds us of PC’s squirming here:
Mr. Gates, perhaps the reason that no one else is doing “innovations” like Media Center and tablet is because of your, uh, sales figures for those products?
As for the rest:
• Parental Controls: Apple debuted Parental Controls in Mac OS X Tiger, released on April 29. 2005. That’s nearly two years ago. (Gates yesterday spoke with NBC’s Today Show host Meredith Vieira and tried out the same “parental controls” lie there, too, at 2:34 into the video here.)
• Photos: Apple debuted iPhoto on January 7, 2002. That’s over five years ago.
• DVD creation: Apple debuted iDVD on January 9, 2001. That’s over six years ago.
• Movies: Apple debuted iMovie on October 5, 1999. That’s over seven years ago. Oh, HD? Okay, Apple debuted iMovie HD on January 11, 2005. That’s over two years ago.
So much for Microsoft’s “whole areas” of innovation.
Related articles:
Gates bristles over Vista, Mac OS X comparisons – January 29, 2007
Pioneer Press: Windows Vista shows ‘Apple is an innovation engine; Microsoft, not so much’ – January 29, 2007
Imitating Apple Computer is no match for innovation – January 17, 2006
Apple’s talent and innovation vs. Microsoft’s hype – October 25, 2005
PC World: Microsoft innovation – an oxymoron – September 14, 2005
Charles Arthur: Microsoft’s definition of ‘innovation’ different from everyone else’s – April 27, 2004
hi..bill gates(in the full video) even says “Boom” like steve said in his keynote..all right i know this s ridiculous,but…
Vista Poll:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/01/30/vista.launch.ap/index.html
I’m so sick of Gates saying “The first time parental controls have been done”
Actually, Apple introduced Parental Controls well before Mac OS X. There was a method for enabling the browser to only show specific sites and that was in the Classic days.
I don’t think Bill was shifting in his seat…I think he was gonna get up an run away :-p
All of these comments about this so-called “sheep mentality” are pretty funny, considering plenty of the stuff OS X “introduced” aren’t true Mac-based innovations. In fact, I’d say that the people who buy Apple-products are more the “sheep” you express such distaste with, and the “PC/Mac” ads just reinforce that image to me.
Your statement is true in that folks will indeed flock to and support (casually to vehemently) their favorite (or most familiar to them) OS.
I think the ‘sheep’ comment was in reference to the masses who will simply take BG’s comments at face value and truly believed MS invented or innovated the featues they did not.
While Apple itself may not have created the ideas (all) as new, they were first in putting them many if not all of them, in the consumer desktop OS computing environment – something BG is stating MS has done – wrongly.
:::shrugs:::
Aqua, Aero, Widgets, Gadgets, naaaah nothing similar there!
Well, much of vistas stuff is similar to osx.
But, media center in vista is purely Microsoft, and… well its good.
there is nothing in OS X that even compares currently, and dont say front row, it dosnt.
I happen to have a G5 power mac desktop, and a powerful PC laptop which I just upgraded to vista.
I prefer OS X, but if apple was smart they would make something similar to media center.
and if thats “copying” Microsoft then so be it.
Well..I still personally enjoy working on/playing with PC’s. I maintain a Mac network at for a company, and I just don’t get why people want to die for Apple OS’s. They have a nice GUI and everything, but I just find it easier to get work done, and solve issues logically on a PC. It almost seems like a boycott of Windows simply because its everywhere. Sorta like a “I refuse to drink starbucks because everybody gets coffee there” attitude. I would go as far as to say that its appeal has much to do with personality. Most of the people at this Mac only building switched from PC’s because they became frustrated on them. Most of these people have issues with technology period. Alot of the “problems” with PC’s aren’t experienced by many users (impossible you say?). And alot of Mac users come off rather elitest to me. My general point however, was to really say that there are Windows users that use it not because work requires it, but because they actually prefer it. But who knows, when I want a OS that “thinks” it knows what I want to do, I may switch
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