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copycat?!....Gates sets the record straight - MS vs. Apple....who copied whom.....???
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This is no "solution;" it's PR from one of the horse's mouths. Unfortunately, the other horse is dead.

NewtonMP2100 wrote: When it comes to the companies’ very first graphical user interfaces, who copied whom?…“The main ‘copying’ that went on relative to Steve and me is that we both benefited from the work that Xerox Parc did in creating graphical interface…their work showed the way that led to the Mac and Windows.”

The second part of Gates's response is true but the first part is misleading. Windows was a weak attempt to simulate System with a GUI-like interface. System came first, almost two years before the widely derided Windows 1.0.

Microsoft didn’t copy Apple and Apple didn’t copy Microsoft. They both copied Xerox.

How stupid.
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Re: copycat?!....Gates sets the record straight - MS vs. Apple....who copied whom.....??? - by Article Accelerator - 02-28-2017, 06:44 PM

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