On 1/15/2010 4:35 AM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-01-15 00:35 , P. J. Alling wrote:
Well they more or less stole the idea for the Lisa OS from Xerox, then
sued Microsoft for having the temerity to steal the same idea for the
first version of Windows.
breaking news, that!
Windows 1.x was on the surface very Lisa/Mac like, with overlapping
windows etc. Apple unsheathed their lawyers and Microsoft's next effort
had much changed interface, the overlapping windows were gone, I don't
remember what else changed, who after remembers much about Windows 1.x.
The suit never got to court, just a filing and a settlement. At the
time Microsoft was the underdog, Apple was the heavyweight. The
situation was reversed by the time of the release of Windows 3.0.
The Xerox OS, (I don't remember it's name), was very slick, supposedly
worked wonderfully, and if anyone should have filed suit, it should have
been Xerox.
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