why in the name of beelzebubb and all his legions would you want to make a piece of apple hardware look like it was running windoze? it'd be like shagging paris hilton but making her wear a john prescott mask!

Microsoft sues Spec-Works. Apple kicks themselves for not suing Spec-Works first. Lawyers make coin and, 'out of interest' get somebody to put the Spec-Works skin onto their iPhones.

Newsworthy? Not yet.

Have they paid the licensing fees for the Vista graphics, including that Windows logo?

I suspect not.

I also suspect the lawyers will be in contact shortly.

To finish the look off, jailbroken users can also download and install the 'Vista' app from the installer.

And what does this vista app do I hear you cry?

well, it adds the typical BSOD to your iPhone/iPod Touch. Now that IS perfection!

The Apple Kool Aid Drinkers have rushed with rapture to use TWO DIFFERENT WAYS to run Windows XP or Vista on their Macs.

Before that there were DOZENS of Hacks to Run Windows on Macs before the PC Clone MacIntels.

Now the MacTards can't wait to make their little Commie Chinese Sweatshop made iPhonies LOOK like Vista!

A CLEAR case of PENIS ENVY.

Next they'll dress their Blow Up Polyethylene Dates in clothes like Steve Balmer.

ROTFLOL, ahhh so funny. Reminds me of GoBar for the newton, except that was vaguely useful as an app launcher.

I think I'm going to be sick!

* Of asthma-hound chihuahua fame, if you have to ask.

That applies to both buying a jesus phone and then applying a Fista skin onto it

is it 10:10 or is it 10:51? do you believe the digital clock at the top, or the analog clock in that craptastic sidebar?

either someone botched up their forgery of that screenshot, or vista doesn't know how to tell the time.

if it came with copy and paste.. that would be something

So now your going to start writing stories every time someone makes a skin for a device OS that looks a bit like another OS?

The analogue clock on the Iphone does not move. it is simply an icon for the main clock application, that has a world clock (with moving analogue clockfaces) and alarm etc. So it doesn't surprise me that the clock icon on this vista theme (this is only a theme) doesn't move its hands either. Interestingly, the calendar icon does change. It always shows the correct date. But the clock icon does not show the correct time, except twice every 24 hours...

You know, you get closer and closer to real English every day... keep it up my man, soon we'll actually be able to understand the crap you spout!

Apple started selling fairly average PCs with some modded BIOS code and an Apple badge (kudos to Apple's marketing department though, they've been selling overpriced tat to people with 'designer' clothing and more money than sense for years now) I've been fully expecting the next OS release to be OS-XP. I guess this is just the next logical progression.

Paris, because I bet she'd buy a Mac and think it was a computer too...

But now we have proof that it's possible to scuff one up a bit and take the shine off it.

D'Oh! And there was me thinking Webster's post was a witty and perceptive *parody* of a crap spouting ignoramus.

Can we have an icon for this so I will be able to tell in future? A picture of Alf Garnett or Rab C Nesbitt, perhaps?

They're expecting somebody who:

a). Bought an iPhone

b). Wants to make their iPhone look like it's running Vista

to be able to:

a). Find an SSH client

b). Use it

...just the way it is thanks without any bloatware on it. If only Vista-owners could say the same thing.

An XP theme would at least have been less embarrassing.

madra - I feel sick and it's all your fault. you said "it'd be like shagging paris hilton"... so I thought of paris hilton... then you said "john prescot". You heartless swine. <still shuddering>

however, given that this device is the epitome of everything i dislike about the 21st century, i think i can be quite safe in the knowledge the the ViPhone will not be appearing in a pocket near me. Hang on, I'll just check to make sure no-one slipped one in here when I wasn't looking.

I like my PC, and it has Vista Ultimate on it.

Anyways, this skin is totally worth it, even if only to show Apple fangirls and get the same sort of reaction as these comments.

...or shagging Paris Hilton and making her wear a Paris Hilton mask.

"Apple started selling fairly average PCs with some modded BIOS code and an Apple badge"

I hate to break it to you my uninformed chum, but Macs have never used BIOS - man, that is so 1980s.

Macs use EFI, a much better implementation of BIOS. Vista was supposed to have it, in fact I think one of the many flavours of Vista (64bit I think) has some kind of support for it as of SP1, but like most things in the Micro$oft world, the older (and crapper) the better!

Better luck next time AC!

Good prank to play on a gebus phone owner though.

...for no other reason but to upset the Macbigots springing up in my office like mushrooms on a dungheap after a length rain shower ;)

"I hate to break it to you my uninformed chum, but Macs have never used BIOS - man, that is so 1980s.

Macs use EFI, a much better implementation of BIOS. "

So they do use a BIOS then, just one called EFI.

'Tard

Well I think this is a clever trick....

the day you see someone whip out an MS loaded device that apears to work you will think how? are they rolling thier own? do they have the source code? are they running some alpha for ms? have they built thier own hardware??

All of these questions led you to believe they are a genius.

The fact that its a skins cheat will slip on by...

the KDE skin?

Mines the Tux

No they DON'T use BIOS, they use EFI.

Read a little, it really helps you know.

Here, I'll start you off:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface

"EFI is intended as a significantly improved replacement of the old legacy BIOS firmware interface historically used by all IBM PC compatible personal computers."

So you see, it a REPLACEMENT.

'Tard right back at ya.

I suppose that having spent so much time in IT it was bound to happen, I personally am very much OS agnostic these days and that can be extended to mobile devices and anything else that has an IT angle in it.

So to all the respective 'Tards trolling the site looking for the commencement of an OS war I say this:

Whatever you’re firmly held beliefs about the look and feel of an OS the by far larger proportion of users do not give a toss about the pros and con's they are more interested in the look and feel. Vista as an OS does appear to be a buggy piece of bloat-ware BUT the icons, graphics and animations do look quite nice.

Which is why a company like this has a market and releases something like a Vista skin for the Jesus phone, so save all this bleating about comparing OS's it means sweet F all to 80% of the user base out there and less to the rest of us reading this article...

/pulpit off

I want a DOS 6.22 interface with Windows 3.11 for workgroups skin, please.

Mines the one with "DOS/4GW" embroidered on the lapel.

Cheers

Steven R

on the back of sportscar.

...people would think adding Windows features to an Apple phone was a good thing. Windows Mobile actually lets you install whatever you want on the hardware you own without having to hack it first.

I misread this as:

it'd be like shagging john prescott but making him wear a paris hilton mask!...ow! I just had to kill a brain cell to get rid of that image in my head.

teecee...you owe me a new keyboard!

Man thats awful. It shows how desperate some widows fans are to get ANY credibility for Vista. This would be like buying a seasoning that made T-bone steak look and smell like dog crap.

You too can mar your phone with the look and feel of non functional bloatware!

Not that long ago I found a copy of XP skinned to look like Vista, Right down to the "Aero" interface, "I use it on my Wintendo" funny though, Amazingly, if you want your Aero experience, its easy as long as you don't happen to be Running Vista

Why not just ACTUALLY run DOS or 3,11 on it?

If you have a cracked iPhone, just ssh in and install dosbox (Stop here for those that want DOS on it), then just install 3,11 on top of that, easy! Not very useful unless you have some old Windows/DOS games to add, but loads of laffs!

Coat icon as I'm now fleeing from Windows and Apple fans that finally agree on something, burning me at the stake!.