That appearance is based on what the industry calls a graphical user interface, in which information appears in windows and operations are carried out by pointing at objects and menus using a handheld device called a mouse – a major selling point of the Macintosh. Let me back up for a minute and explain: We all take for granted the graphical user interface (GUI) of today’s computers, but, as this New York Times article about the lawsuit demonstrates with its description about GUI, it was a novel idea at the time, the application to consumer products of which was largely attributable to Apple:
According to the higher-ups at Apple, this was because Microsoft copied Macintosh’s visual displays - and did so without a license. The lawsuit was filed only a few months after Microsoft released Windows 2.0, which was a marked improvement over the first version. In fact, it was one of the defining elements of 1990s computing.Īlthough that dispute is now largely a thing of the past, there was definitely some true animosity between Apple and Microsoft, particularly because of the events leading up to Apple suing Microsoft for copyright infringement on March 17, 1988.
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If you were paying attention to the computing world in any measure during the 1990s, you knew about the raging Mac versus PC debate.
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