Apple Mac OS X Leopard Preview: Who’s the Copycat Now?

Sometimes I wonder how Apple CEO Steve Jobs can sleep at night. He appears to spend half his waking hours ridiculing Microsoft’s admittedly behind-schedule operating system, Windows Vista, for copying Mac OS X features. But this week at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), he announced ten new features for Leopard, the next version of OS X, most of which will seem more than vaguely familiar to Windows users. I’m not dim: Microsoft does copy Apple on a fairly regular basis. But seriously, Steve. Apple’s just as bad.

This is going to be a never ending debate, to say the least. Paul makes some great points here, and I seem to agree with all of them. On the other end of the spectrum, there are also people who believe that Microsoft should be ‘learning’ from Leopard. Read both articles then conjure up your own conclusions.