[TimmyDee]

Originally Posted by aryayush

How can it be copied! It is a picture of the Earth. I am not believing that Microsoft would have needed to rip it off from OmniWeb. Sounds ridiculous to me.

Read JKT's post. This icon is not just a picture of the Earth, but a specifically designed perspective.

[kbotc]

Originally Posted by TimmyDee

I was looking through Microsoft's Vista site today when the icon for "Community" in their nav bar jumped out at me. It's OmniWeb's! Well, not exactly, but close enough. Same perspective, very similar color palette, same lighting point. Granted their missing the terrain relief and weather effects, but still!

from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...s/default.mspx

Your right, it's a dead ringer for OmniWeb's 4.1 icon. Almost dead ripoff. (4.1's icon didn't have the terrain or weather) it was just a blue/green globe