For Windows 8 in particular, Microsoft might definitely have some Apple envy but at the end of the day, they would have still designed the same kind of interface for Windows 8 no matter what happened outside of their own walls.

Seriously? Then why didn't Microsoft design it, oh, any time in the ten years since ? Has Holesgrove not heard of Microsoft's ? The backlash to this blinkered philosophy has even brought the Macalope temporarily into agreement with Paul Thurrott, who argues that .

Microsoft had to learn the hard way that the shell needed to change far more drastically than it did in order to actually BE touch 'friendly' and here we all are today seeing the Metro interface in Windows 8 on a tablet.

Keh?

¿Qué?