Apple and Microsoft accused each other of plagiarism. In fact, both parties copied another small company.

thought about it. He said that the reason why Apple values ​​confidentiality is because Jobs showed Bill Gates a graphical operating system and then it was copied by Microsoft to successfully occupy the PC operating system?

In fact, the graphical interface was not the first of its kind from Apple. Microsoft is just good at making people late, and is a model for others. I remember that Steve Jobs said in the biography that Apple’s graphical interface technology was developed by Windows and outsourced to Bill Gates. Of course, it may be a mistake. But it is a fact that Apple is not the first one. It is estimated that many young people nowadays do not know that both Apple and Microsoft copied Xerox’s graphics operating system. Remember that before Apple, there was a company called Xerox, and Apple’s desktop was almost from Xerox brought it here.

There were two interesting incidents in the Internet technology circle from 1988 to 1990. Regarding the Apple Macintosh incident, Apple sued Microsoft in 1988 and claimed that Microsoft’s graphical user interface design copied Apple’s Mac operating system. After the incident, Xerox successfully attracted Xerox’s attention. Xerox found that Apple’s desktop was almost identical to his design. So in 1990, Xerox took Apple to court and asked the court to protect the copyright of Xerox Star, ruling that Apple’s copyright originated from Xerox; Apple learned that it also went to court to sue to rebut, but they were eventually rejected. One was that Apple had insufficient evidence, and the other was that Xerox had delayed the case for too long.

Not only Xerox, Apple also copied Sun's Project Looking Glass project. It can be seen that the graphical interfaces of Apple and Microsoft are not their first creations. Even code, windows, office, and azure are not the first to be done in the industry, but they have achieved the industry's top 3, which is quite powerful. Regarding the question of Apple’s rigorous confidentiality, I don’t think it’s rigorous. Otherwise, every time I want to know what the new iPhone looks like, I can get detailed information on Weibo YouTube Macrumours? And every time the information obtained is consistent with the iPhone released by Apple.