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    Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
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    Image of Samiam303 Samiam303
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Seriously, the writers at Gizmodo need to read up on the difference between "clip art" and "stock photos". I've seen the Snow Leopard cover called "clip art" so many times it makes me want to cry... I expect better. #windows7art
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    11/05/09

    @Samiam303: I imagine that calling it clip-art is also meant to disparage the amount of effort that went into designing the Snow Leopard box. "LOL! All they did was just open Word and slap in a pic from the clip art gallery!"

    The clip art gallery does have photos, after all. #windows7art
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    Image of Samiam303 Samiam303
    11/05/09

    @G.O.B.: Come on!: Yeah, I understand they're trying to make a point... but the same point could be made by saying they slapped a stock photo on there, and it would actually be using the right term. #windows7art
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    Image of RogueWarrior RogueWarrior
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Looks like another lousy knockoff of an Apple concept except they're blowing their own horn with a Windows logo on it. Not a single Apple desktop image has an Apple logo in it. Why? Mac users don't need to be reminded of the machine they're using. #windows7art
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    11/05/09

    @RogueWarrior: You're right. They get reminded with the logo on their iMac's chin. Everybody else gets to be reminded by MacBook lids. #windows7art
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    11/06/09

    @RogueWarrior: Goddamn brilliant!!! That MUST be why I never forget that I am using a PC!! Because unlike my MacBook Pro, my PC has windows logos everywhere you look! How stupid could I have been to not see this all along? Do not forget that your Mac has an APPLE logo in the upper left hand of your screen at ALL TIMES, it acts very much like the windows start button. Oh, and don't forget the Mac two-tone face thingy logo that pops up every time you start your macbook and that very same logo is used for your finder icon. #windows7art
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Blah, blah, blah! Mac Sucks! Those default wall papers all look like Tiger's default wallpaper with a windows logo stamped in the middle
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    psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland promoted this comment Edited by Mark 2000 at 11/05/09 3:21 PM Mark 2000 was starred Mark 2000 was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @Mark 2000: FANBOYYYY!!! #windows7art
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved

    Screw that noise. It didn't get any better than this. *blerg. didn't work right.
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    Image of chuck003 chuck003
    11/05/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Ha. I tried to tell MS that a throwback was the way to go but they weren't buying it...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    The login screens wish they had gone with a deep ocean theme. Like you know, looking up while you're drowning in the Pacific. #windows7art
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    Image of nerdtalker nerdtalker
    11/05/09

    In reply to Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved
    Wait, why doesn't Microsoft want the pre-release wallpapers being used as... wallpapers?

    I don't get it. #windows7art
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/05/09

    @nerdtalker: They're still copyrighted work.
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    11/05/09

    @nerdtalker: I better not let them know I saved the Betta wallpaper from the RC for my own personal consumption... #windows7art
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    11/05/09

    @negated: So what does wallpaper taste like? #windows7art
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/05/09

    @lankysob: The snozberries taste like snozberries! #windows7art
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    11/06/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: *licks window* #windows7art
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    11/06/09

    @lankysob: It's digitalicious #windows7art
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