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I've often thought Windows 95 borrowed ideas from Nextstep. Looking at this retrospective, I can see how it could be possible, especially if they started desig
by itomato 9y ago
I've often thought Windows 95 borrowed ideas from Nextstep.
Looking at this retrospective, I can see how it could be possible, especially if they started design in 1992. NeXT had been winning praise for their UI for years by that point, and Microsoft were consulting with Susan Kare (an Apple alum and NeXT employee).
If you compare Nextstep 3.3 and Windows 95 or NT, you can see startling similarities in title bar size and format (to the pixel), window borders, 'rectangularity', tabbed elements and more. "Great artists steal" and all that..
- jdswain 9y agoSoon after the Windows 95 release I heard that one of the members of the Windows 95 team had a copy of NeXTstep on a computer they used, and that it was a source of ‘inspiration’. I can’t find any reference to this now, but the 3D look and grey shades definitely are similar. Windows 95 looks much more like NeXTstep than Windows 3.11.
- atrn 9y agoDitto. I was a NeXTSTEP developer at the time and when Win95 came out I thought the influences were pretty obvious.