actually he saw the GUI on a Xerox copier and yes was also intrigued by what he saw at apple with Steve's mental down spiral years during the Apple Lisa years and Bill actually also stole the Dirty Operating System DOS from a fellow college student stealing his work and turning it in as his project. Sorry but my dad went to college with him and I happen to live in Seattle and my dad and Paul Allen were working together along with the 3 attending Lakeside when Bill approached both asking if they wanted to be a part of his idea for Microsoft and yes my dad turned it down , if you want we can take a boat via Lake Washington and access the back yard of his Mercer Island house. Oh yeah also , After Eudora was created Netscape sold it to M$ and they BOUGHT the rights to what they released Internet Explore 1.0 and have built it off that original Netscape code. Don't hate the player hate the game , jelly much you guys? Opinions are like assholes . everybody has one and they all stink. Hell they need to rename this site to OpinionIT.com.