Poor Microsoft Partner Group Manager Simon Aldous. His Microsoft brethren is calling him uninformed and practically disowning him for the quotes he threw out earlier about Windows 7 basing its UI on the Mac OS.
https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-manager-admits-mac-influence-amidst-other-non-5402589
A post on the Windows Blog entitled ” How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7″ renounces Simon’s quotes with a curt, yet harsh line:
I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were inaccurate and uninformed.
Youch. That’s gonna be a fun day at work tomorrow for ya, Simon. [Windows Blog]