Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?

Windows 7 is a clone of KDE IMO.

If it is, it's a very poor one. Especially with the horrible change where application names are no longer displayed, and only icons for them. It's hard to tell which is an icon for a currently-running application, and which is some other kind of icon.

Quoting:If it is, it's a very poor one.

Naturally. After all, MS made the copy. And I recall many a competent software package that was purchased by MS, only to be later 'improved'.

In this case however, it was not possible to buy KDE. Perhaps to MS's displeasure.

How much does Slashdot B. Hairyfeet get paid for all the material she/he/it supplies to LinuxInsider, I wonder?

Hairyfeet stink, just like a rat.

Who is this "hairyfeet" moron, and why is he being quoted in the article? It's obvious he's just an MS shill.

No he's not a shill. He's just a guy that sells computers, who tried selling Ubuntu Linux computers to his customers, before getting a solid grasp on how to do things right in Linux.

Which leaves the question unanswered:

Did he ever get that solid grasp on "the Linux way"?

What Bernard said.

@gus3

No, he blamed Linux, and claims to be a fan, but he still hasn't been able to shake his Windows-centric mindset. He takes any opportunity to blast Linux for its flaws (sometimes justifiably -- anent helios's recent re-post of a hairyfeet rant) but for the most part his complaints boil down to "Windows hardware can be problematic under Linux", and "Linux doesn't do it how Windows does."

I give quotes to this same column every now and then - don't worry harryfeet doesn't get paid anything for the things he spews all over.

~Jeff