> Blame Apple's lawyers at the time for not reading between the lines of
> the fine print on that "Look and Feel" agreement (Apple intended
> Microsoft to use the Mac Look 'n' Feel in Macintosh applications --
> not in a competing OS).
Ah, but here's the rub... Windows never really became an operating system
until Windows 95. Versions 1 and 2 were simple and mostly useless Desktop
File Managers with few applications. Version 3 was an operating system
extension with many more apps, but it still needed MS-DOS.
By taking 10 years to actually create a "real" operating system, Microsoft
were actually really quite sneaky about it. Not to mention simply limiting
the no-copy agreement with Apple to Windows version 1 only. What do they do
- release v2!
Ben.
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