[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqCF6pwcEpA[/youtube]
In the 80s, Apple took over from Xerox the graphic interface that we use today in any computer, the graphic interface that was the basis of Windows and the first real Mac. In the clip above we have a picture of this interface and it is the main reason why Steve Jobs and Bill Gates never "liked" each other. Bill Gates was inspired by the graphic interface prepared by Apple for his Mac and distributed it through Windows to any computer manufacturer interested in running it, but all without the consent of Steve Jobs who bought it from Xerox. The problem is that the interface adopted by Jobs was perfected before being put on sale and Microsoft was inspired by Apple when it built Windows.
Since then the two presidents of Apple and Microsoft have had a strained relationship, a relationship that even in the days before Jobs' death was not repaired and which probably would never have been repaired considering that Jobs believed that Gates had stolen one from him among the best innovations. The information comes of course from Walter Isaacson, the man who wrote the authorized biography of Steve Jobs.
