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Re:Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold by AdvancedCarrot on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:55AM (#47658441)
I think the answer is simple - they wanted to Sherlock Java.
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Re:Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold by emddudley on Monday April 06, 2026 @10:28AM (#47661399)
For others like me that didn't know the term Sherlock:

It means "To obsolete a unique feature in third-party software by introducing a similar or identical feature to the OS or a first-party program/app." The term stems from Apple's 2002 release of Sherlock 3, which made a popular third-party app named "Watson" irrelevant.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sherlock#Verb

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