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steve Jobs and Wozniak meet each other.
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Bill Gates starts Microsoft along with Bill Allen. MITS Computer buy first computer language program from Microsoft.
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Wozniak starts working on Apple 1.
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Apple 2 is offered to the public.
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Lisa Project initiated. It is named after Lisa, Steve Jobs’ daughter whom he rejects at first.
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15 Xerox employees work on Lisa Project.
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BM uses Microsoft OS. This was a 16 bit OS for IBM. This was IBM’s first personal computer.
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Microsoft UK is started.
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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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Microsoft realases the first office suit
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Microsoft annouces Microsoft Encarta the first multimedia encyclopedia designed for a computer
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Apple realases the first PDA Newton message pad
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Apple realases the first macintosh computer
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Apple realases system 7.
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Apple realases the new sytem 7.55
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Thanks to NEXT the steve jobs's new company he retunrs to apple
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Apple realeases MACos 7.6
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Apple realeses the power machintos g3 and the online apple store
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Apple announces the powerbooks g3 and iMAC
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windows releases windows 98
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Apple realases MacOs 8.5
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microsoft releases windows 2000