Emails show MS experienced OS X Tiger envy
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| Newly released documents reveal that Microsoft executives
| were awed by Apple's future operating system features,
| saying that the it may not be able to achieve Apple's
| innovation levels and acknowledging future, similar
| Windows Vista features would be directly compared with Mac OS X.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/08/ms.inspired.by.os.x.tiger/
Microsoft 'officelabs' looks to open source for inspiration
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| Is a commercial software vendor like Microsoft really ready
| and able to think more like its open-source competitors? Will
| a change in philosophy lead to changes in Microsoft product
| development and delivery (in our lifetimes)? Guess we'll see.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=248
Also see:
http://www.gridter.com/articles/software_cycle.html
Related:
NT influenced by Unix
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| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html
The Redmond Copying Machine?
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| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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