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Antony
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16 May, 2004 7:09 am Longhorn, nothing new but imitating [sdp=32780]  
Exposé feature
In January, I reported one company charge a software called WinExposé for 9.95(USD) (it later renamed to something else.)

Exposé is one of the most exciting feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Panther

Project Looking Glass
A while back, I reported Sun's Project Looking Glass, featuring 3D desktop work space.

Now, guess who's the biggest thief now?
Microsoft, of course.
Longhorn's Alt + Tab will have it, reported by Apple-X.net. Shame on Microsoft.

Edit, changed topic from “Microsoft stealing idea of Exposé”, Admin 17.5.2004

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16 May, 2004 8:21 pm [sdp=32830]  
ExtremeTech provides some screenshots for a deeper look.
drop shadow? transparency (translucent)?

Microsoft has been imitates Mac for ages, let's not forget Windows 95 is in fact an 11-year-late copy of Macintosh operating system.
Not to mention long file names and Trash.

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16 May, 2004 8:41 pm [sdp=32831]  
If you want to go around like that, Apple only just added Alt+Tab application switching to 'Panther', even though it's been in Windows since version 3 (1990).

But, no matter what new feature you come up with, the other operating systems will add it later on. The same is true with web browsers, tabbed browsing for example. It was orginally designed by the folks that make NetCaptor, now it's in Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, Firefox, Opera etc.

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16 May, 2004 9:07 pm [sdp=32834]  
Mandrake wrote:
If you want to go around like that, Apple only just added Alt+Tab application switching to 'Panther', even though it's been in Windows since version 3 (1990).
Well, in Panther Panther, they improved it.
Command + tab was there (before Panther), just did not have the thing in the middle of the screen.
Command + `, switching around the opened windows of same application.

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