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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt.In an interview with TIME last month, Elmer-DeWitt notes, an unworried Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that only one serious lawsuit had ever surfaced in his firm's history: Apple Computer's unsuccessful claim that the Microsoft Windows operating system had too closely copied from the MacIntosh. Microsoft still faces afederal probe into its proposed on-line networkand agreements covering software patent infringement...
...high school, Brad would drive his brown 1978Ford Thunderbird 15 miles to school each day. Histeachers say he was the brightest and mostargumentative student they have ever seen. "Weused Macintosh here," says Bob Lemon, his computerteacher at Warsaw High, "and he's a very strongIBM person. We often talked about it....He's anexceptional personality who could talk to adultsas easily at students...
Windows 95 has not only caught up with Macintosh but in some areas even outshines it. For example, to select a command from one of the Mac's "pull-down" menus requires users to press the mouse button, hold it down while dragging the cursor over the command and then release the button. It is an awkward sequence that new users find difficult to master and that can put a strain on the wrist. In Windows 95, the menus pop open with just one click and stay open until a second click launches a command...
TIME: Just last January, according to Apple, you threatened to stop developing for the Macintosh. Is this true...
Gates: We at no time, in any way, have ever threatened to stop developing for the Macintosh. I don't even understand what it would mean. It's the most bizarre thing in the world. What would we get out of that? It's a big revenue source. It's a profitable business...