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To anyone who might take the uninformed conjectures above as truth: Today's Vista began life in early 2005, when MS started over from scratch. That is, started over from the latest stable code base (Windows Server 2003 SP1) At that time, the idea was to tackle the problem of the over-complex code. Now, you can't turn around in Vista without finding a core sub-system that's been completely rewritten. Video, audio, networking, you name it. They've been redone from the ground up with the future in mind. So you see it's quite the opposite. After this initial hump, MS will be poised to crank out new releases. Some people mention the sidebar vs the dashboard. The sidebar will be available to the masses after the dashboard, but does that mean the idea was stolen? No, in fact you can see the sidebar in Longhorn builds that were made way before OS X Tiger. Several other features were planned for Vista all along, as can be seen from old press releases / articles. These too are claimed to have been stolen from Apple, just because they are out in the current version of OS X. On another note, the 'they stole from OS X' argument is a dead horse. Windows, OS X, and Linux ALL owe some thanks to other OSes.