[Rippin]

Microsoft copied Apple’s Mac, but couldn’t copy exactly due to legal concerns, so they made everything upside-down and backwards.

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Not exactly. On the application side, Microsoft made Mac products very early on and did very well with the Mac interface they ‘got it’ with early offerings of Excel and WOrd on the Mac.

THEN, when Microsoft went to the GUI on the PC (Windows) they didn’t use all those savvy folks from their Mac division to run the show. Not sure why.

[Frantzie]

More like Apple ripped off Xerox Windows and them MSFT did the same thing.

My iPod is highly overrated and overpriced. Anyone know if Mac emulation programs for running Windows programs on a Mac work well? Do you have to buy a copy of Windows for the Mac?

[Swordmaker]

Not exactly. On the application side, Microsoft made Mac products very early on and did very well with the Mac interface they ‘got it’ with early offerings of Excel and WOrd on the Mac.

Apple provided Microsoft with their operating system code so that MS could make Word and Excel. It was this preview that MS used to try and copy the Mac. Microsoft lost a law-suit for lifting the code from Quicktime and putting it into their Windows media viewer...

[ReignOfError]

THEN, when Microsoft went to the GUI on the PC (Windows) they didn’t use all those savvy folks from their Mac division to run the show. Not sure why.

My best guess: It was a "Chinese wall," to protect against lawsuits. If you have the guys who've seen the innards of the Mac OS writing Windows, the writs write themselves.