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I think icons came from Xerox, but the desktop metaphor and the persistent menu bar were from Apple. The first mice actually had multiple buttons, but that idea was rejected at Apple because it was confusing. For dyslexic people like my father, it's still confusing. Apple also had innovations like QuickDraw (Windows in the background were restored to their original contents...

That's a very old discussion. Both Apple and MS took from Xerox (Apple bought, actually). To say MS stole Windows 1, 2 or 3 from Apple would be a VERY big compliment to Microsoft, seeing how bad it actually was. (And why not sue GEM and others, who much more directly copied Apple...) Apple never won a case against MS because of the Windows GUI. Things were settled "in...

It also says that nobody in Microsoft is in charge of design decisions. Their only guide in any particular direction is the Mac that one of the developers owns. ...

And still, Microsoft has to get ideas from Mac. ...

Hello, I'm running Mac OS 10.4.x on a Power PC Mac Mini. Over the past few months, I've been having a strange boot up issue. I've been looking for help all over. Symptoms: a) on power up, the 'white page' showing a swirling circle comes up. At times, this page is in the 640x320 resolution. At times, it is in the default screen resolution (correctly) of...

line Microsoft Office help to guide you through the process of setting up default fonts on new documents. ...

Just format your documents with a font that you are pretty sure exists on the PC as well. This means choose a font that Microsoft loves to install on either platform. The example I gave was Arial. You can be pretty sure that font is on the PC you are sending to. ...

Office 2003 is probably more compatible with Office 2004 than with another Windows version of the suite. Without access to your setup, the most likely explanation for your problems is fonts. Office is supposed to be able to embed fonts in your documents, but that is a waste of space. In your assignments, use only fonts which have been supplied by Microsoft.

Photoshop CS, FCP, Microsoft word, etc. ...

Obviously Adobe and Microsoft aren't members. ...