More Apple WWDC Live Blogging: Tiger vs. Vista

Steve Jobs is back. There are 19 million active Mac OS X users. "As usual, Walt Mossberg said it best." Cue Mossberg rave about OS X.

Jobs is talking about how well Tiger's transition to Intel went--it looks and works like PowerPC Tiger. There are more than 3,000 Universal applications shipping. "All of us at Apple would like to say 'thank you, guys'," he tells the developers in the room.

"What has our competitor been doing for the last five years." Steve introduces another Apple exec, Bertrand Serlet.

He's comparing Tiger to a Vista screenshot. "Some similarities here."

Mac OS X has Spotlight searching, with a robust backend. Vista has search, too. "In terms of UI, they did a major innovation"--Vista's search field is in a different location.

Safari has RSS; IE 7 has similar-looking RSS. Windows Mail looks like Mail. Windows Calendar looks like iCal and has an eerily familiar color scheme. Even the Vista logo copies Apple's Aqua look, he says. "But underneath it all, it's still Windows." It still has the registry, "DLL Hell," and "this well-loved feature that's called activation."

He's showing Elvis and a bad Elvis impersonator. "If you can't innovate, I guess you just imitate. But it's never quite as good."

Now he turns the stage back to Jobs.