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Eight Features Windows 8 Borrowed From Linux

• dmboyd 15y ago
  While obviously based around the live linux distros, windows to go does sound pretty amazing. It doesn't sound too difficult to extend this and use a phone capable of mounting as mass storage and boot your desktop off of your phone. A Windows Windows Phone anyone?
• joshAg 15y ago
  I think some of the "features" windows is "borrowing" are pretty suspect: native USB 3.0 support is almost laughable. Does anyone actually think Microsoft wasn't going to natively support USB 3 until they saw it was on linux? I also don't think it's fair to say that cloud integration borrows from linux when both are really just an integrated dropbox clone.
  • dpark 15y ago
    SkyDrive has been online since 2007, before DropBox even existed. While I agree that it's not copied from Linux, it's hardly fair to call it a DropBox clone. Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (on SkyDrive, actually)
    • joshAg 15y ago
      Wow, how have i not heard of skydrive? I think that proves the point even more.
      • dpark 15y ago
        Your ignorance of something can cause that thing to violate causality? That's some pretty impressive ignorance.