On 1/15/2010 1:30 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
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.
Right, Windows 1 was supposed to have cascading Windows, but Apple
threatened to sue. It's been a long time but I was working in the
industry at the time I remember the announcements and the changes,
vaguely. The original plan by the way was to have one version of
Windows and an advanced OS (sort of a proto NT), to drop it onto, or
good old DOS otherwise. It didn't work out quite as planned.
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