Jeez, Apple wasn’t kidding, were they, when they introduced Mac OS X Tiger at WWDC a year and a half ago:
Bill Gates, last night at CES, talked about some new features in the upcoming Vista OS, planned for release at the end of this year or the beginning of 2007. Interestingly, rather than run a demo, slides of the desktop were displayed. He lauded such new developments as integrated search (or what Mac users already call Spotlight), a music store called Urge (or what Mac users already call iTunes), a Photo Gallery (or what Mac users already call iPhoto). It’s been said many times before that Windows is just an imitation of the Mac OS (ten years behind), but now this seems even more blatant. Though this might be only because I’m now seeing this from the Mac side.
You can either a wait another year for these cutting edge features, or you could already have been using them for a year in Tiger. Rather sad that Gates can do nothing but play catch-up with Apple.
This excerpt from a Vista demo gets the point across even more.
