Mac OS and Windows Through the Years
Mac OS and Windows Through the Years
by , 11:55 AM EST, November 26th, 2007
The clever gang at Gizmodo set their Wayback Machine so they could compare Apple's Mac OS and Microsoft's Windows interfaces over the years. The visual history starts with Mac OS 7 and Windows 95 and ends with Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows Vista, and shows how both have gone from boxy and basic to translucent eye candy adventures -- and also shows Microsoft's penchant for OS-based advertising.
Observer Comments
Don't agree and can't. The "look" of 3.1 was largely Susan Kare's icons - and she was hired by Microsoft to make them. What do you expect the girl to do?
And please don't come and say they're functionally equivalent either - because they are not. Only a complete imbecile would ever compare them and come out claiming they were similar.
I think he meant that Windows 3 was more original, and seeing Windows 95 in comparison would emphasize how much was copied from others AFTER Windows 3.
I think it makes sense to start with System 7 and Windows 95, though, since they are more functionally equivalent. Although time-wise, it would make more sense to start with Windows 3. System 7 was released in a full 4 years before Windows 95 (and only 1 year after Windows 3).
I think the comparo layout is ok until the end. They have
Windows XP vs. OS X 10.2, which is about right, but then,
Windows Vista vs. OS X 10.5.
Actually, Tiger and Vista are better comparisons and more equal on the timeline, especially if you consider when Vista was announced.
I think that Leopard is in a generation all of it's own. To me, it's almost as great a leap from Tiger, as 10.1 was from OS 9.
QuoteGuest wrote:
Am i just not seeing the link in the article above? Not that I'm too lazy to go to gizmodo and find the article, but it sure would be right neighborly of you to put one of them underlined blue text thingies like they often have on the computer internet.
The link is on the word "compare." It looks like all the other links on TMO: blue boldface text. If you want it underlined, you may be able to set your browser preferences so that links are always underlined.
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