This might see an end, for instance, to it showing stitched leather borders and torn paper in its Calendar app and lined yellow legal paper in its Notes product.

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He drew a calendar on his pad of paper to start counting down the days.

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Microsoft's rejection of skeuomorphism - the idea that applications need to look like their real-world equivalents - distinguishes it from Apple's OS X whose calendar app features a leather-skinned interface with ripped paper to hint at earlier entries.

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That's because if you don't sell ISO stock by the end of the calendar year in which you exercised your options, the paper profit at the time of exercise is taxed in the AMT as ordinary income at rates of around 28%, regardless of whether you ever realize that paper profit.

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