Mac OS X vs. Windows

Mac OS X, with its gel-like, translucent, shadowy interface, has been on the market for four years now, and has seen four major upgrades within that time. When OS X first hit the scene in 2000, many people derided all of the "eye candy" that sparkled across its interface as unneccessary.

Check out this image from a Windows developer site:



This is a sample of some of the capabilities that will exist in Longhorn, the next version of Windows, which is currently projected to arrive in 2006 at the earliest, and quite possibly 2008 or 2009. Looks like Microsoft is, once again, trying to mimic Apple's design- albeit far too little, far too late.