Not sure I really buy it. The patent suits seemed more related to VFAT than anything else, especially not as vague as desktop metaphors (remember, Microsoft suc

Not sure I really buy it. The patent suits seemed more related to VFAT than anything else, especially not as vague as desktop metaphors (remember, Microsoft succeeded against Apple trying to come after them in the mid-1980s on similar notions; they'd be fools to think that precedent would not hold on yet another competitor). It's also the same time that Microsoft seemed to want to abandon Windows 95 paradigms as quickly as possible, with the release of Windows 8. It did seem like everyone just went crazy at about the same time.