from WIRED ( wired.com ) / wikipedia.
1990: Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.
The third complete revamp of the Windows operating system was the breakthrough edition, the one that helped Microsoft compete with, and eventually overtake, the Mac OS.
Windows 3.0 was also the OS that, at least on the surface, moved Microsoft away from its DOS-based heritage and gave the customer a relatively navigable user interface. It was also capable of some basic multitasking, although compatibility problems arose with regard to most games and other entertainment software.
The new operating system's outstanding feature, however, was the Control Panel, which looked very familiar to users of the Mac OS. That did not go unnoticed in Cupertino, California.
Apple filed suit, claiming that Bill Gates and the boys had basically ripped off its operating system. (Gates had been shown an early version of Apple's OS in 1981 by no less than Steve Jobs, when the two visionaries were still playing nice.) But a federal judge threw out all but nine of the 189 charges filed in that suit, leaving Microsoft basically free to become the Redmond Monolith.
We all know the rest of the story....
It's intresting that, after years , the story repeat itself, but, with other "actors" , MS and GNU/linux, with MS triing to sue the entire Linux World , for patent violations and so...
Otherwise, vista look to be directly (but with bad copy) ripped form Apple MacosX , ( another time?? ) ....
In this way i prefer to take the "third" way, called Linux. so.. came on.. “Resistance is futile”
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