![]() ![]() While Vosburgh says that Jobs was enthusiastic about Microsoft's design, Grewal tells a slightly different story about what may have been a later demonstration. Our stuff was in any case inspired by Apple's hardware designs, so I can't feel too bad about it." ![]() "So did Steve see our Summer 1999 New Look demo and tell his team to create Aqua?" says Vosburgh. Vosburgh says the idea was that if you had a Bondi blue iMac, then IE 5 would use that same color. In an accompanying blog on the same topic, Grewal quotes a colleague, Maf Vosburgh, saying that their "new look" started with an idea to match hardware with software. to Apple in the Summer of 1999, Jobs was not pleased." "However it was developed in complete secrecy within Microsoft. "This 'new look' had an uncanny resemblance to Apple's later Aqua interface for Mac OS X," continues Grewal. Internet Explorer 5 for Mac featured a design highly reminiscent of the early OS X desktop, though Grewal says this was coincidence - at least on Microsoft's part. ![]()
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