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Plurk Cries Theft in Microsoft Design

Posted by on 16 December 2009
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PCMag.com reports that Plurk.com, a microblogging service, claimed that an overseas division of Microsoft has essentially stolen its design. In response, Microosft has turned off the service, which it calls Juku.

Plurk filed a lengthy blog post detailing the alleged theft, which included code snippets and screenshots to prove the similarity of the two designs.

PCMag also reports that Microsoft stole proprietary code from their design. What do you think? Was Microsoft so intent on competing and demolishing Twitter that cut corners?
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