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Steve got burned a long time ago by MS copying many of Apple's designs. I think anyone in his shoes would go out of their way to not let it happen again.

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He did not. Both Apple and Microsoft used designs originally from Xerox Parc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

Are you sure that no one at Microsoft ever saw a Mac before they implemented Windows, and that there never was any discussion between Microsoft employees saying that they liked or dislike any feature of the Mac GUI?

Are you really sure :-) Your one-liner sounded like you know your facts.

What he meant was, Mac's concept of gui was not original, it was pretty much based on Xerox's. So, even if Microsoft meant to copy the mac, they actually copied Xerox Parc.

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