{"id":1000295,"date":"2006-11-28T08:54:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/11\/28\/microsoft-admits-they-copy-from-apple\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:20:37","slug":"microsoft-admits-they-copy-from-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/11\/28\/microsoft-admits-they-copy-from-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft admits they copy from Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs and others have said for years that Microsoft copies Apple. Remember the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/media.arstechnica.com\/staff\/fatbits.media\/redmond-photocopiers.jpg\">Redmond, start your photocopiers<\/a>&#8221; banner from WWDC 2004? Well now, someone deep inside the beast has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drizzle.com\/~lettvin\/2006\/11\/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html\">admitted it<\/a>. Straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth, here&#8217;s Moishe Lettvin, formerly of the Microsoft Windows Mobile PC User Experience team:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.drizzle.com\/~lettvin\/2006\/11\/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html\"><p>My team had a very talented UI designer and my particular feature had a good, headstrong program manager with strong ideas about user experience. <strong>We had a Mac that we looked to as a paragon of clean UI.<\/strong> Of course the Shell team also had some great UI designers and numerous good, headstrong PMs who valued (I can only assume) simplicity and so on. <strong>Perhaps they had a Mac too.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis added. Wow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs and others have said for years that Microsoft copies Apple. Remember the &#8220;Redmond, start your photocopiers&#8221; banner from WWDC 2004? Well now, someone deep inside the beast has admitted it. Straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth, here&#8217;s Moishe Lettvin, formerly of the Microsoft Windows Mobile PC User Experience team: My team had a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}