Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8: Oh, So Very Different

Microsoft’s Windows is a shameless imitation of Apple’s Macintosh.

You can debate whether that’s true. You can’t, however, argue that it’s not conventional wisdom:

Apple has even joked about it in product launches.
But it may be the conventional wisdom of an era that’s passed. Now that we know what Apple is doing with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, due this summer, we can compare it to Microsoft’s approach with Windows 8, arriving sometime this year. Really, the two companies’ upgrade strategies couldn’t be more different.     More Read