Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:45:46 -0700, Tom Shelton wrote:
>
>> On Jun 14, 6:43 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Windows Bimbo Says OS X Leopard Looks Like Vista.
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| What you get from Mary Jo is a sample of the sorry state of
>>>| journalism, commentary, and analysis from mainstream media,
>>>| of which ZDNet plays a big part-- a big part in perpetuating
>>>| myths, fulfilling stereotypes, and giving women in tech a
>>>| bad name.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/windows_bimbo_says_os_x_l...
>>>
>>
>> Except that, like all MS haters, she actually ignores history... And
>> if you want a spcific - I'm talking about her comments about dashboard
>> and widgets in Apple. I've been doing some research, and here is the
>> timeline of the various widgets libraries...
>>
>> October 2002 - Longhorn XP Professional leaks with a build date of
>> September 2002. Build number 3683. While visualy similar to Windows
>> XP, guess what it does contain? Windows Sidebar with gadgets.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista#2002:_Early_development
>>
>>
>> Febuary 10, 2003 MAC OS X version of Konfabulator (latter known as
>> Yahoo! Widgets) is released. Windows version November 8, 2004.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konfabulator
>>
>> Karamba (latter SuperKaramba) - March 2003, project begins
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superkaramba
>>
>> Mac OS Widgets were first available in Mac OS X Tiger. Or, version
>> 10.4 released on April 29, 2005.
>>
>> I didn't find any information on gDesklets - but I suspect it is in
>> there somewhere around the 2003/2004 mark. And I'm ignoring the
>> hundreds of commercial applications (such as from stardock, ect) that
>> have provided this same functionality for years... I'm fairly
>> confident the MS wasn't the first ever to think of this - but, to
>> claim the "copied" it from Mac OS X is just plain ridiculous. It
>> existed in early builds of Vista almost 3 years before Widgets appeard
>> in 10.4. So, the only thing that can be claimed here is that Apple
>> beat MS to market - but, not that MS copied them.
>
> The article seems to have been removed, and replaced with a story about
> spam filters.
>
> What you're saying though is absolutely correct. I've said as much many
> times over the last 2 years. It doesn't stop at that, though. Microsoft
> also previewed desktop search before google and apple even let slip they
> were onto that idea, although admitedly, Apple had concepts from Be to draw
> upon when they decided to get to work on it.
>
> As you say, it's unlikely that Microsoft was the first to do any of these
> things, but they most certainly did not copy them from Apple.
I'm pretty sure OS/2 WPS had something similar too.
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