Microsoft invents the OSX dock

Eight years later. In a blog post, and without even mentioning OSX as an inspiration, Microsoft created what is their equivalent of the dock – namely that the taskbar now uses icons avatar of your apps, offers the option to pin them there so you can click on them when the app is not running, and application feedback embedded in the icon itself, three points that the Dock was superior with and that weren’t there in the Taskbar. Now, give it magnification and some stacks, and you can change the name for “Dock”…

What’s next? Saying all Windows applications are singletons and getting the One-Document-One-Window concept right? Unsure about this, maybe in Windows 8…

I don’t think Mac OSX has everything right the first time, but most of the concepts in the Apple’s operating system are right the first time, very intuitive and just makes sense. They polished some over time, and look where they are – a solid consistent and intuitive operating system, overall. But I don’t consider myself a blinded Apple devotee.