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Apple spent years suing MS in the 1980s and 1990s because of claims that MS used ideas from Apple, rather than Xerox, in creating a windowed shell for an OS. S
by sien 14y ago
Apple spent years suing MS in the 1980s and 1990s because of claims that MS used ideas from Apple, rather than Xerox, in creating a windowed shell for an OS.
So the days when Apple thought they didn't need to do this were the days of the Apple II.
- taligent 14y agoCurious that you decided to leave out the 2000's decade. In a coma or something ?
- Gigablah 14y ago> In a coma or something ? Was that necessary?
- drivebyacct2 14y agoRead his comments, he's basically a pro-Apple, anti-Google troll.
- rbanffy 14y agoThe Xerox GUI (as implemented in the Star) had no concept of drag and drop or pull down menus. It didn't expose much of a file system (as Lisa and Mac do). Apple added all that and Windows 1, after the Lisa was launched, opted to also have them. So, yes. Both Apple and Microsoft borrowed a lot from Xerox, but Microsoft really copied a lot from what Apple did.
- zik 14y agoXerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i... Apple's Jef Raskin did come up with drag-and-drop though so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.
- masklinn 14y ago> so that's pretty much the one original thing they did. The Star didn't have overlapping windows either I believe (Atkinson believed it did, so he implemented it). I think the clipboard was invented for Lisa as well.
- rbanffy 14y agoThere is more detail here: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt&topic=Software%20Design&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...