“Microsoft apologist Paul Thurrott is doing his very best to scribble up a negative spin on Apple’s WWDC Leopard announcements. Poor Paul! After five years of Longhorn waiting and regular Vista disappointments, his very best attempts at poo-pooing Leopard sound a lot like sour grapes,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran writes, “WWDC banners and keynote speakers took several shots at Microsoft’s copying. Bertrand Serlet presented specific examples of how Microsoft shamelessly copied Apple ideas down to the specific layouts and colors used in applications. Steve Jobs remarked that, despite spending $5 Billion in R&D, all Microsoft wants to do is ‘copy Google and Apple.’ This upset Thurrott as well, particularly because he lives on Microsoft’s teat, and is probably tired of hearing about how the milk stinks.”
Eran writes, “In the previous article, Three Reasons Why Microsoft Can’t Ship (and Apple can), I described why Thurrott is so bitter about Leopard: Apple has been shipping so much innovation while Microsoft struggles to deliver any! Here’s a look at the real secrets behind Leopard that Thurrott doesn’t want you to notice.”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews article:
Thurrott on Mac OS X Leopard Preview: Apple the copycat? – August 09, 2006
Poor ol’ Paul Thurrott reminds me of a pinata. Everyone swings at him, and he’s an easy target. Too bad candy doesn’t spill out when we have a direct hit, which is more often than not.
Wait, wait, waaaaaaaaait a minute.
Paul TurdRot is biased? Is this true?! But I’ve just renewed my WinSuperSite subscription!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…
I just forwarded this article to Thurrott.
Enderle and Thurrott should start dating.
I emailed the writer of the article Dan and asked him his opinion about Enderale because I to think Thurott and Enderale make the best FUD writing team on the internet.
MatchMaker and John have essentially beaten me to the point. I would just add Dvorak to Thurott and Enderle for the Special Olympics finals competition — village idiot division.
That was a great article. I highly recommend reading the whole thing.
the fulll article is one of the best I have read in a long time. Everyone should take a look.
When your living comes from writing for Windows IT Pro, Windows Supersite, etc you cannot bite the hand that feeds you very hard or for very long if you expect to eat regularly.
“Enderle and Thurrott should start dating.”
Start?
Thurrott is the resident Microsoft Village Idiot..
|I liked Eran’s: “Thurrot’s on the teat of MS..”
Just read the blogs where Win developers are saying things like “it’s enough to make you wan’t to switch to Macs..”
It’ll happen too. Windows has had its day of fame. Now its ready for the scrapheap.
Enderle and Thurrott should start dating.
NOT! The world already has enough inbred idiots. We don’t needthe love child of these two!
I preferred Eran’s “deep Thurrott”.
i don’t think he is anywhere near as bad as he used to be. He’s pretty tough
on MS these days. Truth is no one was really wowed by the demo, but I reckon
they are keeping loads back. At the end of the day osX is now a mature product
whereas Vista is going to be loads of trouble.
Finally! A writer who actually makes sense when offering opinions and uses facts to back them up. Take lessons from this guy, Paul!
A hearty “Amen brother! Amen!” emits from the congregation!
MDN magic word: “MIND” as in this author actually HAS one as opposed to Thurrott, Dvorak and others.
My favorite quote from TFA:
Maybe that’s too much to ask of a company run by a chair throwing, mouth breathing, meathead who has been a bazillionare all his life, but acts like a nouveau riche multilevel marketer selling used cars.
Actually PT is one of the more objective Mac Users/Reviewers out there… but unfortunately, many of the mac users who post here don’t make up the majority. Many are blind zealots in want of a target who feel dwarfed by Microsoft. My apologies to the exceptions here.
I, as a mac user, have no need for people who wear their blinders with pride… nor do I solicit their opinion.
An excellent and well written article. I like this guy.
Hey, I read ‘Tarnsman of Gor’ over thirty years ago! And I still have fantasies of “tied up naked women”. Is that wrong?
Seemed to me that Andy Inakhto was “wowed” by the keynote.
Poor Paul. He’s the author of some of the most unintentionally funny material online: “The Future of Windows Today!” That’s the best oxymorn this side of “military intelligence” or “jumbo shrimp.” Heck, the “Future of Windows in the Future” is a risky proposition, the Future of Windows TODAY is downright funny.
Don’t ping my cheese with your bandwith.
Maybe MS should give up on software development entirely and move on to something like taxidermy or bait farms.
All analysts such as Paul are pure politicians, no more. There are a bunch that support and evangelize each platform, including Apple. As users, we may support one or more because they reflect the ecosystem that works best for us.
As a Photographer, I like Apple because their language is more visual based and intuitive. People like Paul are not visual, but want something else that I don’t quite understand, and perhaps don’t want to. Perhaps it’s about the “struggle”. The struggle to complete a project before the app crashes. The struggle to figure out the toolbars and button shortcuts. Perhaps it’s about the struggle to actually do something, rather than geek out on all the tools I “could” use if I actually had some creativity in me to do it.
Me? I just want to worry about making something. Let the clowns like Paul continue to paw through each feature to figure out when an email was sent out that proves that it was copied by someone else.
They say that the patent laws may be updated to allow copyrighting only when a product is created, not when the product was simply conceived. If that’s the case, MS and Paul are in some serious trouble.
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