Not long ago, Apple released the preview of its Mac OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion. It integrated popular apps and features from iOS, and bring them to the Mac so as to accelerate the pace of OS X innovation.
Similarly, Microsoft released its latest Windows 8 OS in the last week of February. The new OS include some new features such as Skydrive (a feature similar to iCloud), the primary interface very similar to the Windows Phone 7 and 8 and Metro Start Screen.
It seems Apple and Microsoft are preparing to release their new version of operating system, in fact, Apple are stay ahead of Microsoft, the list below will show you how Windows 8 imitated Mountain Lion.
App Store- inspired by the popular App Store with iOS, Apple also add a Mac App Store to its Lion OS so as to let the OS X users buy apps and receive operating system upgrades online. Windows 8 just has a Windows Store that enables users to easily browse purchase and install Windows apps. Is this pure coincidence?
Full-Screen Touch-Enabled Mode – Windows 8 Metro interface, just similar to Mountain Lion, which has multi-touch support and gestures to many of its apps, will be able to remove the start menu and task bar to support full-screen apps that are set to be entirely touch-optimized.
3. Apps – Apple’s Mountain Lion has included desktop versions of a number of its mobile apps like Reminders, Notes, and Game Center and renames the iChat desktop app to Messages to match the iOS equivalents. Microsoft too will introduce apps with Windows 8 that are available in its store that will run on both Windows 8 desktops and tablets.
Apart from the three main features mentioned above, other Apple’ s Mountian Lion’s features such as LaunchPad, AirPlay both can find their shadow on Microsoft 8. All these make us can not help regard Microsoft Windows 8 imitate Mac OS X Mountain Lion .
No matter whether Windows 8 is Mountain Lion’s imitation, it is there! It will provide users more convenience, will make Windows OS products more attractive and competitive.
It is not reported that the both OS get improvements in video playing, so if you want to import and edit some videos at uncommon formats such as AVCHD MTS, MOD and the like , you may need some special software such as video converter, swf converter, dvd creator to do the job.