The revolution that started Intel, the personal computer, is the secret. Turns out I've implemented prior art that invalidates their tab window palette, several times over. There is some irony in the Adobe's patent being invalidated by prior art documented in a paper about a visual PostScript debugging environment. Check out this software , which has a PostScript stack holding objects in windows with tabs that you can drag on and off the stack, and manipulate by opening up editable tree views of PostScript data structures. Everything is bookmarkable and re-organizable.
Most grand visions turn out otherwise.
They said the same things about Push Technology and Java. He hopes someone else figures it out. Usually it doesn't work that way. BTW, the killer app is music. It can save a lot of time arguing about who's right, or who's upset, or who means well or not, to recognize that all of us are running different programs, even different operating systems.