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A New Twist in the Mac-Windows Waltz

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Source: Ecommerce Times:

"The scene: Macworld Expo in San Francisco, January 2001. Apple Computer's (Nasdaq: AAPL) devoted audience went wild as CEO Steve Jobs showed off the spiffy new look of its operating system of the future, OS X . One observer was less than thrilled, however. Kevin Browne, then general manager of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Macintosh Business Unit, and his team of developers had rushed to finish a presentable version of the Internet Explorer browser for OS X in time for the show. But Apple had failed to given them a heads-up on the new "Aqua" design. It was only by dumb luck that Microsoft's blue color scheme more or less matched Apple's."

Keep reading by going to the link above. This is an interesting article.
 

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Very interesting read.
 
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i doubt microsoft jus wouldnt care if Apple came out with a competition to their entire product line and they definitely wouldnt jus drop the Mac business unit.
 
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Just dumb luck, yeah right. I was running a WB aqua theme on windows 98 in 2000. There were all kinds of screenshots out by then. Probably even some early builds.
 

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