Microsoft's and there Strategy To Clone Ideas

After reading this article :

Paul Allen: Microsoft's Strategy Was To Clone Rivals, Take Their Ideas

 i was not surprised because Microsoft  had a lot of these case along its history. Microsoft strategy for copying ideas from other companies is obvious  for technology followers, one of there recent cases is with google because of there search engine Bing :

"After noticing curious search results at Bing, then running a sting operation to investigate further, Google has concluded that Microsoft is copying Google search results into its own search engine."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20030206-264.html#ixzz1LXFko7D0"


Apple one of the companies that had in the past many issues and cases with Microsoft the case was "a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation)