Eight Features Windows 8 Borrowed From Linux

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I think some of the "features" windows is "borrowing" are pretty suspect:

native USB 3.0 support is almost laughable. Does anyone actually think Microsoft wasn't going to natively support USB 3 until they saw it was on linux?

I also don't think it's fair to say that cloud integration borrows from linux when both are really just an integrated dropbox clone.

SkyDrive has been online since 2007, before DropBox even existed. While I agree that it's not copied from Linux, it's hardly fair to call it a DropBox clone.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (on SkyDrive, actually)

Wow, how have i not heard of skydrive? I think that proves the point even more.

Your ignorance of something can cause that thing to violate causality? That's some pretty impressive ignorance.

While obviously based around the live linux distros, windows to go does sound pretty amazing.

It doesn't sound too difficult to extend this and use a phone capable of mounting as mass storage and boot your desktop off of your phone. A Windows Windows Phone anyone?

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