From: "P. J. Alling"
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.
Windows 2 had cascading windows. Windows 1 only had tiled "windows"; more like window panes.
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.
Xerox sued both, but they'd waited too long to file and the statute of limitations had run out.
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