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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak meet each other
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Bill Gates starts Microsoft with Bill Allen.
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Steve Wozniak starts working on Apple 1
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Apple is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
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Apple 2 is offered to the public
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The Lisa Project was created after Lisas' name, Steve Jobs' daughter
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15 Xerox employees work on the Lisa Project
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IBM uses Microsoft OS. This was a 16 bit OS for IBM. This was IBM's first personal computer
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Lisa is offered to the public
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Pepsico's John Sculley is hired as CEO of Apple
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Microsoft Mouse is initiated. Microsoft Mouse is for the MS-DOS. This year Paul Allen resigns from his EXEC VP position, and Jon Shirley becomes president
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Microsoft is allowed to use Mac technology & Jobs is fired
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IBM and Microsoft sign a joint development agreement
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Microsoft offers stock, each stock was worth $21
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Microsoft release V 2.03 with many improvements taken from Mac
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Windows 3.0 is released
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Michael Hallman is promoted to CEO. Jon Shirley retires as CEO. Microsoft becomes first PC software firm to surpass $ 1 B
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National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement is given to Bill Gates
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Windows NT is introduced by Microsoft
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Sculley joins Spectrum instead of Apple
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Vermeer Technologies is bought by Microsoft. Frontpage was their application, which was also incorporated by Microsoft
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Jobs returns to Apple after being fired a few years earlier
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Microsoft violates a consent decree. This 1994 decree violation was alleged by the US Department of Justice
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US Department of Justice alleges Microsoft violates the Sherman Act. Two antitrust cases are filed against Microsoft
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XP and MAC OS X are released
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Xbox 360 and MacBook released
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Vista released
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Windows 7 and iPad are released