Top 10 features that Apple stole from Windows

In the battle between Mac OS X and Windows, here's a reminder of where Microsoft supplied the innovation first

10. Terminal: Command Prompt



Oldtimers will remember that Windows began as a GUI running on top of the MS-DOS command line OS. Today's Command Prompt is no longer DOS, but it does give command line access to Windows itself. Apple eschewed a command line interface in versions 1 through 9 of the Mac operating system, but finally gave in and added Terminal to provide access to Mac OS X's powerful Unix underpinnings. In 2006, Microsoft released Windows PowerShell, which includes a scripting language and supports some bash (Unix) shell commands.

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