Today “reported a german newspaper”:http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/587/66521/ that Linotype accuses Microsoft for plagiating the type of Windows Vista.

For their new OS Microsoft has developed a new type called “Segoe UI”:http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/16/493388.aspx which is indeed very similar to Linotype’s Frutiger Next.
Only little details are different, for a layperson absolutely not obvious. So you can imho call the Segoe a plagiarism.

Unfortunately the evidence is hard to find because only the development data of Segoe could proof it but Micrsosft probably will not open it up.
Unlike any other Microsoft plans also to protect the type under software copyrights not like normally as art.

For me that is an absolute effrontery and should be legal persecuted.
Strange days in Redmond where decency and honour have gone…