Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was a co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were known for their tumultuous rivalry and friendship within the technology industry.[1][2] Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple due to health reasons and remained on as chairman until his death due to pancreatic cancer in October 2011.[3]
History with Microsoft[]
In 1983, Steve Jobs invited Bill Gates to preview the pre-release development of the Macintosh. In 1984, Microsoft began development on Microsoft Word 1.0 for Macintosh, which was released in the following year.[4][5] After Jobs was forced out of the company and Microsoft had released Windows 2.0 with a GUI that was similar to the Mac, Apple Computer, then under CEO John Sculley, filed a federal lawsuit in 1988 against Microsoft.[4][6]
Jobs returned to a financially-troubled Apple Computer in 1997. He negotiated an end to the lawsuits with Microsoft and an agreement to cross-license technology between the two companies in exchange for Microsoft's commitment to continue developing software such as Microsoft Office for the Mac along with an investment of $150 million in Apple non-voting shares (just under 5% of the company). Apple also agreed to include the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser by default with future Mac OS releases for the next 5 years. Though the joint announcement by Jobs and Gates was met with shock at Macworld Expo Boston in August 1997, the investment from Microsoft helped save Apple from bankruptcy.[4][7]
Dramatization[]
Jobs's and Gates's rivalry was dramatized in the 1999 television film Pirates of Silicon Valley, starring Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall, respectively.[8]
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ Bill Gates says this is the Steve Jobs trait he envied the most by Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC. 2019-09-12.
- ↑ A history of the decades-long feud between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose love-hate relationship spurred the success of Microsoft and Apple by Avery Hartmans, Business Insider 2021-04-01.
- ↑ Apple’s Visionary Redefined Digital Age by John Markoff, The New York Times. 2011-10-05.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Microsoft's relationship with Apple by Christoph Dernbach, Mac History. 2011-01-30. Archived 2012-02-16.
- ↑ Macintosh Business Unit: 25 Years of Connecting Mac Users to Microsoft Productivity, Microsoft. 2009-01-06.
- ↑ Today in Apple history: Microsoft gets sued for ripping off Mac OS by Luke Dormehl, Cult of Mac. 2019-03-17.
- ↑ Nearly 20 Years Ago, Microsoft Sold Its Apple Stock for $550 Million--and Left $120 Billion on the Table by Jeff Haden, Inc. 2022-09-19.
- ↑ Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), Internet Movie Database. Accessed 2020-02-09.
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