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Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The war of the Desktop Pictures

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 · 9:02 am · 27 Comments

“‘I would give a lot to have Steve’s taste.’ Bill Gates said that of Steve Jobs at the D5 conference two years ago, and we knew exactly what he meant,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune.

Elmer-DeWitt offers up the two images that are “samples of the new desktop images offered by this fall’s big operating system updates: Microsoft’s Windows 7, scheduled for release in October, and Apple’s Snow Leopard, due in September.”

We won’t spoil Elmer-DeWitt’s surprise. Check out the images in the full article here.

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British Mac Head

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 4:52 pm · Reply

The thing to remember is the MS wallpapers are not created by MS. They are bought by them. Looks like they just went and grabbed a selection from a few art sites and some are a little childish, some are unsuitable as wallpapers and the rest are pretty decent. They are all better than the usual Windoze selection. As far as I am concerned I might just grab a few of them for myself to add to the selection of Snow Leopard desktop pics that will come with the next OS X upgrade.

Let’s not disrespect the artists that sold MS the pics. As one poster said on the site “I bet most of the pics were done on Macs”.
84 Mac Guy

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 5:21 pm · Reply

The Win7 pics made my eyes bleed.
BC Kelly

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 6:16 pm · Reply

“Can you guess which is which?”

Well Elmer, you waskley wabbit you

Put the name of each one under each of the photos

I don’t read very well, but …

BC
auramac

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 1:41 am · Reply

I liked the first one shown of the ones by Microsoft, but overall, Apple’s much better. Van Gogh! I’ll take it..
derekcurrie

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 1:44 am · Reply

7ista Desktop Pictures: Bad trip man. The first set remind me of a nightmare I once had while suffering from the flu. What is in the water over there in Redmond?
LLIB SETAG

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 1:14 pm · Reply

Citizen Gates & Blowhard Ballmer are dropping acid to be like Steve Jobs! Weird & creepy!
Dude, Steve did that in the 1960s & you are thinking it will work for you in 2009?
lame!
P.S.: Is this the wallpaper samples for the new ZunieTunes Retail Stores?
KW

Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 3:14 pm · Reply

Personally I like the Windows 7 wallpapers at least most of them. He just picked the worst one of the batch. You can view the rest of the Windows 7 Wallpapers here.