In article , Huge wrote:
It's nice to see Canonical trying to improve on the desktop
metaphor rather than blindly copying Microsoft as just about
everyone else seems to have done ...

Skipping lightly over the fact that Microsoft didn't invent it in the
first place.

They did not, indeed. But they have made it ubiquitous, so it is they
who are being copied. For better or for worse.

Cheers,
Daniel.