<p>If by “rebuff” you mean “rip-off” then yes. Microsoft has copied Apple with abandon. There was a great blog written by a disgruntled MS Windows developer who said “our departent had a Mac which we looked up to as a paragon of a good OS”</p>
<p>So yeah, copying Mac OS was and is standard MS operating procedure.
Anyway, I am actually writing this post from Windows Vista right now. I installed it on my MacBook ('twas a piece of cake with Parallels).</p>
<p>The new Windows search thing is very nice–but I’ve been enjoying it for almost 2 years already with Mac OS X 10.4…</p>
<p>Vista is better than Windows XP (though that’s like saying “Penn is better than high-school special ed class”–it doesn’t take much), but it’s still the same old Windows.</p>
<p>But now it’s very shiny.</p>