Looks like Microsoft ripped off Frutiger to create Segoe, the typeface of Vista. It seems like Monotype, who supplied Microsoft with Book Antiqua and Arial (knock-offs of Palatino and Helvetica, respectively) also created Segoe for them.

Segoe is the kind of font that deserves an extensive review with long poetic prose about its beauty. Too bad it already received a million reviews, has been on a million marketing pamphlets, was and is used all over the place. Yes, long before it was born, it was used everywhere. In fact, Segoe is not Segoe. It’s the ghost, if living entities can have ghosts, of a typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in the 1970s and released for public consumption in the 1980s.

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