Before one should bitch about spelling and grammer, one should look to one’s own post for a proper example; you complain about the atrocious spelling and grammer of others, ironically in a post of your own which lacks proper punctuation! You do know that sentances generally begin with capitolization of the first word? Or that when one refers to one’s self using the pronoun ‘I’, that it too should be capitolized? Before you rip on other’s thoughts and postings… perhaps you should look to your own faults.

First, this is an MS web page, not Vista or any other MS product. I see nothing to indicate this icon even exists in Vista.

Second, there’s no guarantee MS even created this web page. It may have been contracted to a third party.

Third, it’s irrelevant because some not-too-smart person designing the page is the guilty person here. I can guarantee you that Bill Gates didn’t call down to the web design department and tell some intern to copy icons from Apple, because, “hey, Apple is so much cooler than us.”

Give it a rest, people. Some of you seem so hopelessly devoted to Apple that you’re willing to read *way* too much into a little icon plagiarism.

Geesh, get a life.

Bwaaa ha ha ha ha haha! THAT is funny.

What amazes me is that no one at Microsoft bothered to check this.
Is there an approval process in place?

Wait a minute (remembering) ActiveX, CSS compliance in the browsers, domain registry, et. al….Forget what I just said.

(see how I made the s a dollar sign, it’s to show that microsoft is greedy and I am hip)

We should hold a rally to protest Micro$$$oft (uber leet dollar sign usage) that will teach them not to steal Apple’s website icons!!!!1.1.2omgwtfbbq

“And you know, IconFactory has done design work for Microsoft, Apple, and Ubuntu.”

For Microsoft, certainly. Not for Apple. Ever. You’d think they’d like, brag about that? Here’s a post from Icon Factory on the whole matter: http://iconfactory.com/home/permalink/1754

It takes an MS fanboy to think that Apple doesn’t use one of their legions of creative people to draw their own icons.

i guess the only point you are making is that everyone has different tastes and needs so why argue which is better? o.O

lame

2. apple does own the copyright to that icon

3. some lazy designer at M$ needed an icon to finish his page by his deadline, not having sufficient time to create an icon representing more than one user (only what, 5 or so years since vista started?) he grabbed one… and probably not from the apple website. maybe from his own collection of GUI bits or some other website that was using it without permission already.

4. the fact that M$ immediately changed it is proof they dont own any copyright to it and that it was not initially a M$ sanctioned choice of icons anyway.

Real world headsup - no multi billion dollar corporation is stupid enough to allow its paid employees to own the copyright on works created. “Yes Mr Shareholder, er actually that $50K a year developer we let go owns the copyright to some of our core IP, so we’re a bit up the creek”. Ho ho.