To: Bush2000
The sad part is, it wasn't even Bill's idea. He stole it from the creators of the Macintosh.Sigh. Get it straight already. Apple licensed these ideas from Xerox. Microsoft, in turn, licensed these ideas from Apple.
Apple licensed certain parts of its GUI to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0. Microsoft then went merrily on its way in ripping off Apple's look-and-feel.
In other words, my point stands: if there hadn't been an Apple GUI, the idea to emulate it (poorly) wouldn't have occurred to Microsoft.
76 posted on
01/05/2005 5:50:34 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(The DNC! Where boys and girls look the same! That's a little strange isn't it?)
To: Prime Choice; Bush2000
I think you both are right.
But the real appealing feature of both the first Apple and Windows 1.0 (on a i286) was . .
78 posted on
01/05/2005 6:15:12 PM PST by
Happy2BMe
("Islam fears democracy worse than anything-It castrates their stranglehold at the lowest level.")
To: Prime Choice
Microsoft then went merrily on its way in ripping off Apple's look-and-feel.
Not according to the federal court that heard the case.
80 posted on
01/05/2005 7:21:17 PM PST by
Bush2000
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