OH NO! Microsoft have copied Apple!
Ah, I really don't miss Slashdot or Digg... The comments there are so blindly anti-Microsoft that they can't tell a good product from a bad product anymore. They just lump everything Microsoft does into the "stupid" folder without bothering to be objective. With the moderation systems they have, they only encourage the baseless slander. Ah, good ol' "age of the blog". No accountability... Just spill what you think without doing any research and watch the flood of people pat you on the back. (Unless, of course, you share non-mainstream views.) But, I have RSS feeds from a couple Slashdot categories (nothing I haven't heard before it hits Slashdot, thanks to Google Reader), but sometimes I get to see hilariously short-sighted insinuations such as this:
"Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have shown a small snippet of the upcoming Windows 7 at Walt Mossberg's D: All Things Digital conference. It seems like the Windows team have switched their focus for inspiration from Mac OS X to the iPhone OS. Multitouch is the biggest addition, and will appear system-wide, usable anywhere. The most interesting part of the touch UI is not the eye candy, it's the Task Bar, which seems to have morphed into a pie menu."
Right. Microsoft needs to take inspiration from the iPhone because they never experimented with multi-touch on their own since 2001 with the Microsoft Surface. (That link is a PDF, just to warn you.) Nah... Of course not. We all know Microsoft can't research and develop things on their own. We all know that all the ideas they have are copied directly from Apple, and that Apple is completely innocent and minds their own business. (Boy, is that a laugh.)
Also notice the incorrect grammar. "...the Windows team have..." What the heck is that, anyway? I've heard no compelling excuses as to why people do this. You use "have" instead of "has" when the subject is plural. "The teams have switched..." "The team has switched..." It's one team. "Sony have decided to..." No! "Sony HAS decided to..." Sony is a single entity. "Microsoft have let Bungie go..." No! "Microsoft HAS let Bungie go..." When you want to be lazy and abbreviate it, you say "Sony's done that," not "Sony've done that." "Nintendo HAS the best console." Not "Nintendo have the best console." It might be a group of people inside the team or company, but they're still just ONE team... ONE company. If you wanted to talk about the people at the company, you'd say "the employees at Nintendo have", not "Nintendo have". Nintendo is a singular entity that HAS things. But I'm really not surprised at this. After all, this is the Internet we're talking about. (Not "these are the Internet"... Kind of like "these are the voyages"?)
But anyway. There you are. More less-than-truthful Apple fanaticism.