Screenshot in Tips app appears to be made in macOS

Jul 22, 2020 18:36 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft, the maker of Windows, has apparently used macOS to take a screenshot that was then published in its very Windows 10 Tips app.

As its name suggests, the Tips app is supposed to help users discover the features that are bundled with Windows, making it a little bit easier to master the operating system.

But as some redditors noticed recently, one screenshot that’s published in the Tips app doesn’t come from Windows 10 but from macOS, something that you wouldn’t necessarily expect from the company that currently makes the world’s number one desktop operating system.

How can we tell it’s macOS and not Windows 10? The colored window control buttons that are aligned to the left are a feature specific to macOS, while in Windows 10, the same buttons are aligned to the right and use a different design.

Screenshot fixes, now taken on Windows 10

While Microsoft has remained completely tight-lipped on this whole blunder, it looks like the company acted fast to correct it. Shortly after the first reports made it to the web revealing that Microsoft for some reason used macOS for a screenshot in its Windows 10 Tips app, the software giant published a new version of the image that was taken on its own operating system.

While for many such a mistake is quite shocking given it’s two rivals we’re talking about here, similar accidents happen every once in a while and involve various tech companies.

Very often, this takes place in the mobile industry where employees of various phone makers are spotted using devices manufactured by the competition. For example, Samsung’s Twitter accounts have previously posted messages from iPhones, despite Apple’s device considered the number one rival for the South Koreans’ flagship models like the Galaxy S and Note lineups.