It has always been a running joke that Microsoft’s Windows systems look surprisingly like Apple’s OSX systems, with features like desktop search in the taskbar, and the look of Vista.
There are two schools of thought here – on the one side, Microsoft copies all (or most) of their ideas from Apple, and claims them as their own executing the copies as originals. On the other side, Microsoft doesn’t take their ideas from Apple – period – and the similarities are purely coincidental.
I’d like to take you through a new concept – The Usability Funnel. This is a concept covering the evolution of operating systems and their interaction with humans.
