[Am-info] Gates: Antitrust trial "a waste of resources"

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Paul Rickard on 6/13/00 9:12 PM ---

>====== On 06.13.2000 5:58 PM, Mitch Stone typed: =======
>
>>>    And that look-and-feel victory has since then come about to bite 
>>>Microsoft's ass, since it removed any grounds for them to sue the Linux 
>>>vendors that include a Windows-looking interface with their own systems.
>>
>>Possibly. Apple's case was complicated by them having licensed some 
>>elements of the Mac interface to Microsoft in 1985 (under duress). 
>>Knowledgeable parties suggest that Apple would have won otherwise.
>
>    What would Windows possibly look like if Apple had won? Something 
>like Microsoft BoB, or perhaps little more than the old DOS shell 
>programs? If Microsoft had to come up with its own interface, Windows 
>would have been a failure.
>

This is one of the "six serendipities of Microsoft."

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