Microsoft Rips Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon?
This post was published 3 years 3 months 9 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Daring Fireball: Microsoft Rips Off Apple’s Workgroup Manager Icon? That’s right. John points out a pathetic attempt by Microsoft to go unnoticed borrowing an icon from Apple.com. Microsoft, with funding up the wazoo, your development and creativity team can’t even manage to pay someone else to create some unique icons? Lame!
The blatantly ripped icon by Apple can be found on Microsoft’s Small Business site [view Apple Server page]. Simply click ‘Buy Now’.
I would also like to point out the fact that the title for the Small Business page is misspelled as well. Talk about laziness.
H8ers :D
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/BaseProductPage/images/buy/BuyVolume.gif
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/images/indexiconworkgroupmanager20050429.jpg
Theres the direct links to the image that is the same on both sites.
Unlike the whole “Vista stole a mac wallpaper” fiasco that was posted a few weeks ago that wasn’t true, looks like I’ll have to go with ya guys on this one.
Maybe you should look at it positively, that Apple icons are so pretty, others use them as well instead of trying to top them.
Since the Apple page touts that this is all built on Open Source Software, are we 100% sure that the Icon in question isn’t a freely available icon, perhaps borrowed by Apple as well?
Wally
They’ve replaced the icon.
LOL. it’s already been changed on the Microsoft site. The replaced the one they stole from Apple with a really pathetic and crappy icon. The site is still spelled wrong though.
I think the new icon is better, in the sense of what it represents, because it was talking about purchasing copies for multiple systems. The apple icon had nothing to do with it.
Why cant people realize that companies buy packages of stock photos and clip art and they also sell their own. Just because one company used a picture, doesn’t mean they own it, they created it.
Its even more plausible with the backgrounds, do you think they give someone a camera and say, go shoot some pretty pictures for us?
All of this Microsoft negativity, but yet in the Uneasy feed, there’s an add for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Why hate Microsoft so much if you guys allow ads from them!?
The ads are provided by a third party vendor, that scans for keywords – There is no real hate for Microsoft on my end, I think they are a company who has run out of ideas. They need new fresh blood to surge through its once vibrant veins.
FYI. The Mac didn’t support multithreading until MICROSOFT showed APPLE how to do it… NOW WHAT B!TCH? STEP BACK!
I keep hearing here that Microsoft keeps ripping off apple, but the point is Microsoft’s own a bit of apple anyway, so they are more then able to.
Ha! If you’ve got Windows Live Hotmail, check out the site’s icon in the title bar. I only just noticed it then. Basically, it’s a grey background, and a white apple icon.
Is that really legal? There is no reason for Microsoft to use an apple icon, and they’re in direct competition. I didn’t know that Microsoft owned part of Apple. Interesting.