Welcome to the latest edition of On This Day where we examine events that occurred on this day in technology history. Today in technology history we look at the Apple suit and the buyout of Netscape by AOL.
1988 – Apple Files Suit
In the United States, Apple Computer files an suit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard in San Francisco federal district court. The suit accuses Microsoft of using visual display features of the Macintosh operating system graphical user interface (GUI) in the Windows 2.0 operating system. Apple claims that this version of Windows violates copyrights in order to duplicate the “look and feel” of the Macintosh. Hewlett-Packard is also named as a defendant. The suit will be lost in 1995.
1999 – AoL Buys Netscape
Also in the the United States, America Online (AOL) completes the acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation in a $10 million arrangement.
