Microsoft Ripoff?

I always hear how Microsoft ripped off Apple original GUI interface, but I didn’t realize the depth of it until I went back and looked at Window 3.0. Then I remembered, Jobs and Gates both ripped off the Xerox Alto.

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Xerox Alto

MS Windows 3.0

MS Windows 3.0

Macintosh System 7.5.3

Macintosh System 7.5.3

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  1. graham says:
    October 18, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    No Chance, Alan Siegel created the modern OS.

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