The History of Windows 2.0
Re: that last quote, I'm not sure they <i>could</i> have done a better job of copying the Macintosh at the time, except in a very crude way.<p>Microsoft was targeting 16-bit Intel CPUs which required a coprocessor for floating point support. That's a huge constraint on what you can practically do, compared to the Mac's 68k.<p>Hardware is probably the biggest reason Windows was garbage until Windows 95, where they jumped ahead of Mac OS with preemptive multitasking etc.