Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: In his reflections on the status of Steve Jobs at Apple, it is impossible to separate the role of Microsoft. Enterprises, as well as employment and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, a pioneer in the industry and to define an era. The two leaders and at different times, competing all the time and competed in ways that helped shape the landscape of techno. It's a complex relationship. In the early days of computing, Apple depended on software from Microsoft for its Macintosh computer. There's a charming 1983 video, aired in an edited form for the D: All Things Digital Conference in 2007, in which Jobs hosts a "Dating Game" with software execs including Gates. It is a celebration of love with Gates comments on the Mac "really captures the imagination of people" and the use of the decision in the end, all the needs of support frameworks, including Gates. 
Because Microsoft got to the top of the computer industry, Apple has become more marginalized in the 1980s, the gloves came out. In 1988, Apple sued Microsoft for infringing on the patents regarding the look and feel of its operating system. Over years of litigation, Microsoft won rulings that whittled away almost all of Apple's claims. By 1997, Apple's fortunes had sunk so low that it reached out to its sometime partner, sometime nemesis for a hand. Gates appeared via satellite at the MacWorld conference have agreed to invest $ 150 million of Apple as well as to develop and ship future versions of Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and development tools for the Macintosh. The companies also settled the claims remaining in dispute over patents. That investment, which will surely be rewarded for Microsoft over the years, also helped Apple once again the economic base. And it helped Jobs move forward on the job of turning around Apple and ultimately making it the most valuable company in technology. Along the way, Jobs often sparred with Microsoft, criticizing the company's lack of creativity. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," Jobs said in the 1996 public television documentary "Triumph of the Nerds." "They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products." In a New York Times article that ran after the documentary aired, Jobs disclosed that he called Gates afterward to apologize. But only to a degree, ‘I told him I believed every word of what I'd said but that I never should have said it in public,'' Jobs told the Times. ''I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.'' At the time, and for many years after, those words often seemed like sour grapes from an executive whose company had been surpassed in so many ways by Microsoft. But in the end, Jobs demonstrated his vision on the right. The muzzle of the design and vision helped launch the iPod, iPhone and iPad and revolutionary Apple products business became more profitable and more valuable than Microsoft.
Because Microsoft got to the top of the computer industry, Apple has become more marginalized in the 1980s, the gloves came out. In 1988, Apple sued Microsoft for infringing on the patents regarding the look and feel of its operating system. Over years of litigation, Microsoft won rulings that whittled away almost all of Apple's claims. By 1997, Apple's fortunes had sunk so low that it reached out to its sometime partner, sometime nemesis for a hand. Gates appeared via satellite at the MacWorld conference have agreed to invest $ 150 million of Apple as well as to develop and ship future versions of Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and development tools for the Macintosh. The companies also settled the claims remaining in dispute over patents. That investment, which will surely be rewarded for Microsoft over the years, also helped Apple once again the economic base. And it helped Jobs move forward on the job of turning around Apple and ultimately making it the most valuable company in technology. Along the way, Jobs often sparred with Microsoft, criticizing the company's lack of creativity. "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste," Jobs said in the 1996 public television documentary "Triumph of the Nerds." "They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products." In a New York Times article that ran after the documentary aired, Jobs disclosed that he called Gates afterward to apologize. But only to a degree, ‘I told him I believed every word of what I'd said but that I never should have said it in public,'' Jobs told the Times. ''I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.'' At the time, and for many years after, those words often seemed like sour grapes from an executive whose company had been surpassed in so many ways by Microsoft. But in the end, Jobs demonstrated his vision on the right. The muzzle of the design and vision helped launch the iPod, iPhone and iPad and revolutionary Apple products business became more profitable and more valuable than Microsoft.
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