It doesn’t matter who started first, or who’s copying who. The direction Microsoft and Apple are taking is to go mobile. A majority of features found in these OS’ are shared by both. Overall the playing field is pretty even.
After that you’ll have access to contacts, messages, settings, but most importantly: your 25GB of SkyDrive storage. Users will be prompted to sign in with their Windows Live ID. Windows 8 has an almost identical feature. This inlcludes contacts, apps, photos, music, and messages. After that they will have everything that has been saved in their iCloud. With Mountain Lion users will be prompted to sing in with their Apple ID at start. A quick glance at the start screen will show which apps need attention. Windows 8, like Windows Phone, will use live tiles for notifications. Email, iMessages, Calendar events, and 3rd party app notifications all show up here. All notifications are funneled into one area that is accessed by a gesture. Mountain Lion includes the Notification Center from iOS 5. An added bonus for Skype over iMessage is the ability to do video calls. Now Windows users will be able to use Skype no matter where they are. The included benefit of this is Skype in Windows 8. With Skype being baked in to future versions of Windows Phone it will act as an alternative to SMS for many people.
Now people will be able to text their friends at their computer.
Mountain Lion incorporates iMessage into the native chat application formerly known as iChat. With iOS 5 Apple introduced the world to iMessage, a free way of communicating between people with iDevices. So how do the features of Mountain Lion and Windows 8 compare? Let’s find out. Apple wants the Mac to look more like an iPad, and Microsoft wants the PC to look more like Windows Phone. It’s clear that both Microsoft and Apple are trying to achieve the same goal: merging the mobile OS with the desktop OS. Today the tech world was buzzing with the announcement of Apple’s next version of OS X, Mountain Lion.
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