// The following content is translated from top Chinese blogger keso’s blog on M$ Garry’s post about Sina copying M$’s design. I am trying to copy keso’s idea in this translation.

// Update: the original translation was made in a hurry, I fixed some of the bugs, luckily the idea is not affected, all those bugs were just wording issues.

On August 31st, Garry Wiseman, member of Microsoft Live Expo group, in his post, explicitly accusing Sina Post copied the design and graphics of Live Expo’s previous version. The news started to explode after being listed in TechCrunch.

Garry accused sina for stealing (the original post title: “sina.com steals our design and graphics”), and posted two screenshots as evidents. After careful comparison, I found it is hard to tell if designs of the two pages share any similiarity. Besides the pushpin graph and some choice of colors, normal users will probably not notice the relationship between the two sites. In some sense, we may say that IE7 steals Maxthon’s and Firefox’s design; microsoft MSN search steals google search’s design; microsoft local search steals google map’s design. Further more, microsoft steals in a more complete, more substential and smarter way. Sina.com is no way better than microsoft in terms of stealing, it should learn from microsoft on this.

Garry did something indecent today - he even changed his post, the title is changed into “The Sina Story…”, he closed the comment function of the post, and deleted the 20+ comments posted there. Luckily, MSN search, google and yahoo! all saved page caches for us. Garry argued in his update, that the original post was intended to attract the attention to international copyright infringement, and indicate that this was not acceptable. He said, he does not expect much sympathy, and noted “except the common criticism and mocking toward microsoft”

It is quite funny to see a strong man begging mercy in tears. However, I wonder, seeing microsoft making such a fun of itself, whether our Bureau of Broadcasting and Television will step in or not.