It looks like Macintosh if you can't see the big E on the eye chart. There's no menu bar, no desktop applications, no dialog boxes, no icons, no "zoom". SmallTalk has overlapping windows with tabs on the left-hand corners and pop-up menus. But, rumors of Apple stealing from PARC got published as fact. You can see it by looking at SmallTalk and Star, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's (PARC) precursor to the Macintosh, the Finder and the evolution from Windows 1.0 to 3.0.Īctually, SmallTalk/Star shouldn't even be a bench warmer in this game. But what seems to have been forgotten is how much of the original playbook Microsoft took from Apple. The rest has been extensively documented in an unending flow of articles. ![]() Two years later, Apple saw Windows 2.0 and sued their formerly close friends in Redmond.Įnough SmallTalk. The company gave Microsoft a license for certain elements of the Mac GUI for use in Windows 1.0. Apparently Apple needed Word more than Microsoft needed what was half their yearly revenue at the time (don't ask me why), so Apple caved. Microsoft threatened to stop work on Mac software. After all, the company was saddled with the DOSasaurus, and it really believed tiled windows were cool.Īpple threatened to sue. As it turned out, Windows 1.0 wasn't a pixel for pixel port. While Apple was giving Microsoft preferential treatment in its Mac application development, the Redmond company was secretly trying to port the Mac interface to DOS. ![]() As you could imagine, company execs had trouble with this sincerest form of flattery. In 1985, Apple saw Windows 1.0 just prior to its debut. No more lavish analysis on exactly what the lawyers were smoking when they filed this disaster. No more heart-stopping shifts as the Judge vacillates all over the legal spectrum. A hearing is set for later this month on the piddling elements left in the Apple - Microsoft lawsuit.
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