Fourteen years ago, Microsoft wholesale copied an existing competitor's product to announce Microsoft Wallet. That competitor was CyberCash, which was the first to provide a secure payment system on the Internet. I remember watching a Microsoft promotional video where actually showed pages from CyberCash's web site and presented them as their own, being careful to scroll down enough before the cameras rolled to cut off the CyberCash banners. I learned an important lesson about Microsoft that day.

What a shame. I remember taking college level Chemistry in my U.S. government-run school. (Well, actually, my school was run by state government like most public schools. You must have gone to school on a military base or something.) And getting credit for it when I went to University. On the other hand, I didn't get drivers ed until I graduated, and I had to pay for it at a private driving school.