The scene: Macworld Expo in San Francisco, January, 2001. Apple Computer's devoted audience went wild as CEO Steve Jobs showed off the spiffy new look of its operating system of the future, OS X. One observer was less than thrilled, however. Kevin Browne, then general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, and his team of developers had rushed to finish a presentable version of the Internet Explorer browser for OS X in time for the show. But Apple had failed to given them a heads-up on the new "Aqua" design. It was only by dumb luck that Microsoft's blue color scheme more or less matched Apple's.
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