Haha rivalry…lov’n it ;)
“Jim Allchin, Windows platform Vice President at Microsoft, said Longhorn is a much weightier project than Tiger, which he described as ‘a peripheral to the iPod.’”
Oh and also this:
“Allchin also said that some of Apple's ideas such as Dashboard were inspired by early demos of Longhorn.”
http://www.macminute.com/2005/04/25/tiger/
So who really invented the Konfabulator idea??