>>>I know that they revolutionized consumer products, but since the first Mac how have they influenced business computing?
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>>without Apple there would be no Windows!
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>Are you sure of that?
>Yes, the Windows interface looks an awful lot like the Mac's and the Mac preceded Windows, but both of them look an awful lot like the Xerox Parc.
>So it's pretty certain that Apple didn't copy from Ms, but it's not certain that Ms copied from Apple.
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>What is also certain is that the guys at Xerox Parc blew a fortune by not copyrighting the mouse and that interface.
if MS also got their basic ideas from Xerox they did a lousy job copying! Steve Jobs saw a great idea and made it a lot better if not perfect. I have seen Xeroxes approach. It was geared for wordprocessing only