Microsoft denies Windows 7 is based on Mac OS

All together now! Backpedal!!

I bet someone is getting raked over the coals!! That is, if he still has a job…

Wouldn’t surprise me if his stuff is already sitting at the curb, cardkey doesn’t work and email account is deleted. Can’t make radical individual comments like that without repercussions.

So today, one wonders just what machinations are being endured by Simon Aldous, the Microsoft Partner Group manager who was Wednesday quoted by PCR as suggesting that Windows 7 was rather inspired by the simplicity of the Mac OS. Indeed, Aldous declared that Microsoft’s new operating system was designed to “create a Mac look.”

Microsoft denies Windows 7 is based on Mac OS