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Aug 15, 2022Liked by Steven Sinofsky

Great post with lots of detail, I can remember watching that very D conference interview & reading the Ina Fried article/non-article.

Question, you mention several technologies and how they also showed on iPhone (multi touch from Surface table, the mapping app) as if to indicate Microsoft thought of them first or that one influenced the other. Surely this is more happenstance vs actual influence in any way? It’s always easy in the fullness of time to see the parallels but I can’t recall any commentary at the time talking about the similarities (and I loved Windows 7 & used all the Betas).

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