Ron Schenone

What Do Wallpapers Have To Do With Operating Systems?

Posted by on Aug 12, 2009 | One Comment

I was reading an article in which the writer was trying to compare the taste of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. In his writing he used a wallpaper from Apple’s Snow Leopard compared to a wallpaper from Windows 7. He then asked the question which wallpaper was from Apple  was which wallpaper was from Microsoft?

Here are the wallpapers:

Image: Apple Inc.

Image: Microsoft Corp.

Unless you can not read, it is impossible not to tell which image is which since they were labeled. What I couldn’t understand was this supposed to be a comparison of Apple vs Microsoft operating systems? Did the writer know, or even care, that Windows 7 has a long list of different wallpapers?

Or was it a slow news day?

Comments welcome.

Source.

  • Pat

    All we’re comparing here are the prettiness of the wallpaper that comes with each OS. That means nothing, as there are a lot of free wallpapers out there that can be installed on either computer.

    What really matters is whether the OS is easy for the computer user. I like Windows Vista, for instance. My daughter prefers the Mac interface (which I detest, though I like the BSD Unix command line).