Xerox -> Mac OS klopt maar gedeetelijk. Toendertijd nodigde Xerox Steve Jobs uit om hun producten te bekijken en misschien af te kopen. Uiteindelijk investeerde Xerox in Apple om de Mac te maken.
"Note also that Apple was invited by PARC to view their research, and a number of PARC employees subsequently moved to Apple to work on the Lisa and Macintosh GUI. However, the Apple work extended PARC's considerably, adding manipulatable icons and a fixed menu bar and direct manipulation of objects in the file system (see Macintosh Finder) for example."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...y_commercial_developments
Xerox investeerde niet in Microsoft, Bill Gates en consorten maakte Visual Basic voor de Mac. En tijdens de productie kreeg vroeg Microsoft vele details dat opvallend veel te maken had met een eigen OS ontwikkelen(Windows)
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Microsoft loopte altijd achter de feiten aan, maar vermozelde de concurrenten met hun
“embrace, extend, and extinguish” tactiek. Maar hedendaags werkt die tactiek om meerdere redenen niet meer. Hieronder een aantal dingen waar MS achter loopt.
"Games: Microsoft advertised the concept of Zune gaming well over a year ago, and there’s still nothing to show. Apple launched iPod games in 2006. It’s now offering console games downloadable over the air from major developers on its mobile WiFi platform. If Microsoft released gaming today, it would already be more than two years behind. But it hasn’t.
Podcasting: Microsoft released its Zune podcast listings so late in the game it had to call them… podcasts. That term was invented in 2004 by publishing pioneers, and the technology was added to iTunes in 2005. Apple announced it had no trademark claim on the term in late 2006, and Microsoft launched its own podcast directory for the Zune in November 2007. Two years behind (and some change).
Partnerships: Apple pioneered links with Nike, Starbucks, Audible, all the major music labels and movie studios, indie distributors, and hardware accessory makers, even including MP3 rival Creative. Microsoft has yet to forge any significant partnerships with the Zune. And who’d want to marry a cad who formerly beat up its PlaysForSure wives and left them for dead (including Creative)? That was just two years ago!
WiFi Music Store: Back in March, Francois Ruault, directeur de la division grand public of Microsoft France, was unashamed in leaking to the press the story that Microsoft would release its third generation Zune player in Europe at the end of 2009, along with a WiFi music store like Apple’s. That’s two years behind, and frankly, WTF?
Video: Apple’s fourth generation iPod gained the ability to do video output in 2004, and the subsequent model could actually play back full motion video on screen. The original Zune, released a year later with a larger screen purportedly intended for watching video, lacked the ability play most standard video formats, requiring an ages-long transcoding process first. The following year, Microsoft’s new flash based Zune was released without video output at all, driving Microsoft years back into the past compared to the video Nano that shipped at the same time.
Touch: Microsoft’s enthusiast minions tried to equate the $10,000 Surface bathtub of scanners and projectors with the consumer-priced, handheld iPhone last year, but Microsoft is only officially promising to copy some of the iPhone’s software features in its Windows Mobile 7, also scheduled for the end of 2009. That’s well beyond two years behind."
Voeg daarbij toe: Private browsing, GUI, Zune, Retail Store en nu nog de App Store.
Eerdere Microsoft werknemers hebben zelfs toegegeven dat ze voornamlijk kopieerde van Apple.
"My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience.
We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI. Of course the Shell team also had some great UI designers and numerous good, headstrong PMs who valued (I can only assume) simplicity and so on.
Perhaps they had a Mac too."