It appears that Microsoft’s lazy developers have once again ripped a design concept from another company and published it as their own. This time, their victim is Kayak, a discount travel site that’s been around for several years.
You can read the full details and see a side by side screenshot in this Wired article. It’s pretty blatant.
The information is the same (price, airline, time, etc), so of course the layout is going to look similar. For blatant copying take a look at this:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008122.html