Archrival and Knight in Shining Armor: Microsoft’s Relationship with Apple
Microsoft and Apple have been business partners and tough competitors for many years. Back in the seventies, Steve Jobs and
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Xerox Parc
Scrollbar History – UI design is difficult
Some interesting UI design history from Jack Wellborn at Worms and Viruses: While watching the video, I couldn’t help but
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Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox PARC?
It is claimed again and again that in the course of the Macintosh’s development, Apple just resorted to the ideas the research laboratory Xerox PARC had hatched before. Fact or Fiction?
The myth entwines about a late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs.
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In the mid-1970s, the personal-computer market blossomed with the introduction of the Altair 8800. Each year since has brought us
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