Well I should have been more clear about the overlapping windows part.
And multiple icon selection with mouse, probably one thing I do the most when I'm dealing on our desktops, again a very important tool. So is drag and drop, both Apple inventions.
And Windows 95 is irrelevant because it wasn't competing against the first Mac OS. When the first Mac OS was released with the Macintosh, it was the first commercially successful GUI OS. Win 95 was the GUI OS which win Microsoft the monopoly. And it borrowed heavily from Mac OS, like I said. Around 200 UI elements were licensed to Microsoft by Apple, not by Xerox, for Win 1.0, which were in use all the way until today.
Jobs was blown away by what he saw, certainly, like people from Xerox were eventually blown away by what his team did with the stuff they took from Xerox. That should be evidence enough as well.
Just because Xerox started it all does not mean that we owe more to them than we do to Apple or Microsoft. I never said Apple invented all of it, from the first post on I acknowledged that PARC started it all. But started is the key word.
