Windows isn’t copying mac with the whole sidebar with “gadgets” thing: They’re copying Google! Haven’t you realized in Google Desktop there is a little sidebar that has “gadgets” on it. Google Desktop came out BEFORE Windows Vista. Also Mac copied Yahoo. They have widgets on the desktop just like Yahoo Widgets. Yahoo Widgets came out a while before Mac OS X. Hm…

the answer is by DMZ :
Microsoft copies everyone thats usually what they can do.