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Win 95 literally stole some of the NeXT look. They stole the grey raised borders and the close [X]. They turned the iconize button into a maximize button for so

Win 95 literally stole some of the NeXT look. They stole the grey raised borders and the close [X]. They turned the iconize button into a maximize button for some reason.

monocasa 8y ago
Grey raised borders definitely existed in Windows 3.1 GUI elements.
- kstenerud 8y ago
  ... which Microsoft copied from Motif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) Both Windows 3.1 and Amiga OS (Workbench) 2.0 copied the look in 1990.
  - monocasa 8y ago
    Totally, everyone not relegated to the dustbins of history stole.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
  Only on buttons until ctl3d.dll became commonplace.