The code base for the MAC bears no resemblance to Windows, and both were developed, independently, at about the same time.
your statements need some correction, MSFT had apple's code base, apple gave them the code and the interface so that MSFT would write, or more precisly "copy" some apps for apple...... using this code and interface as the GUI interface, and then some other people's work on word processors and spread sheets that were around before MSFT was doing apps...
with out apple giving MSFT the code and interface needed for the GUI, MSFT would have never thought to do their own GUI...... that is easily proven.....
of course apple had MSFT sign some non disclosure licensing, and the sort, but they were badly written, and MSFT was able to steal the code at will in their first designs for windows.... and got away with it..... stealing is still stealing, like murder is still murder.... even when you get away with it.... ask OJ....
also your statement that apple and MSFT saw xerox Parc at the same time is in error, and easily proven wrong, Jobs was at Xerox Parc in Dec of 1979, Gates at the earliest, was there in november of 1980..... Gates saw both the lisa, and the "cheap lisa" which was later named the mac, before Gates ever went to Xerox Parc, apple's innovation was the whole reason Gates went to Parc in the first place.....
actually apple was the whole reason that IBM even wanted a Desktop OS.... because apple proved that there was a market for a desktop computer, which IBM snickered at, before apple proved them wrong..... MSFT didn't even have a clue as to a desktop OS, when IBM called them, thinking that MSFT had one..... so MSFT had to go out and BUY one..... so that they could do business with IBM..... otherwise IBM didn't want any part of MSFT's basic compilers......
oh and by the way, the statement that Bill Gates said, where he was stealing the stereo first or what ever, was made long after the events, and he knew he was getting sued, so he made up that statement, knowing full well that Jobs was there a year earlier, but perhaps not knowing that Jobs PAID for the invite, and the permission to go forward with the ideas from PARC....
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