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Microsoft fed Apple lines about how they were working on this app or that app, but in reality, they were reverse-engineering the Apple OS and building Windows from the ground up, based on the principles they saw.
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That's not really an accurate statement at all. In the mid-late 80s, Microsoft and IBM were jointly working on a project which later forked and became Windows NT and OS/2. It had many features in common with Apple's MacOS, but none of the source code was directly ripped off or reverse-engineered from Apple. It also had several key features that weren't present in Apple's product, most notably preemptive multitasking (the first version of MacOS to support this was OS 10.0, released in 2001).