Microsoft-Apple timeline comparison.

Microsoft foundation

Apr 4, 1975

An American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Established by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in Albuquerque Nuevo Mexico

Apple is established

Apr 1, 1976

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded to sell the Apple I personal computer kit, a computer single handedly designed by Wozniak.

Apple I

Jul 1, 1976

The Apple I was Apple's first product

Apple II

Apr 1, 1977

is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products,designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer

Disk 2

Jun 1, 1978

The Disk II was designed specifically for use with the Apple II personal computer family to replace the slower cassette tape storage.

Apple II Europlus and J-Plus

Jun 1, 1979

Apple made the necessary hardware, software and firmware changes in order to comply to standards outside of the US.

Apple Lisa

Jan 1, 1983

It was the first personal computer to offer a graphical user interface in an inexpensive machine aimed at individual business users

MacWrite 1.0

Jan 24, 1984

Was a word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984

Macintosh (128K)

Jan 24, 1984

A handle built into the top of the case made it easier for the computer to be lifted and carried.

Steve Jobs leaves Apple

May 20, 1985

After an internal power struggle, the board of directors sided with Sculley and Jobs was stripped of all duties. Jobs, while taking the position of Chairman of the firm had no influence over Apple's direction and subsequently resigned.

Microsoft launches windows 95

Aug 24, 1985

A consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products.

Windows 1.0 first version release

Nov 20, 1985

A graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft become corporated

Feb 26, 1986

They start in its new location at the campus of Redmont Washington

Microsoft first versions of office

Aug 1, 1988

An office suite of desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems.

Apple allied with IBM and Motorola in the AIM alliance

Oct 2, 1991

The AIM alliance was an alliance formed between Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer), IBM, and Motorola to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture. The stated goal of the alliance was to challenge the dominant Wintel computing platform with a new computer design and a next-generation operating system.

PowerBook 100

Oct 21, 1991

Is a portable subnotebook personal computer manufactured by Apple Computer. Priced at US$2,300

Pippin

Dec 1, 1994

Is a multimedia technology console, was based on the Apple Pippin platform, a derivative of the Apple Macintosh platform.

microsoft enters to the internet

Dec 7, 1995

Microsoft creates its first web browser messenger

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh

Mar 20, 1997

Is a limited-edition personal computer that was released in 1997 in celebration of the company's 20th birthday.

iBook

Jul 21, 1999

Is a line of laptop computers sold by Apple Computer, the line targeted entry level, consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the PowerBook, Apple's higher-end line of laptop computers.

AirPort

Jul 21, 1999

Features a modem and an Ethernet port. It employs a Lucent WaveLAN Silver PC Card as the Radio, and uses an embedded AMD Elan processor.

Microsoft new CEO Steve Ballmer

Jan 13, 2000

Pocket PC

Jan 10, 2001

Microsoft releases Pocket PC 2002, their firts OS to power smartphones.

MacOS X

Mar 24, 2001

aplple releases Mac OS X

Windows XP

May 31, 2001

microsoft releases Windows XP which ships with the most hated browser: Internet explorer 6

iPod Classic

Oct 23, 2001

Is a portable media player marketed by Apple Inc. The current generation has the largest storage size of any current iPod offerings, with 160 GB of storage.

Windows server

Apr 24, 2003

microsoft launches windows server 2003

MacBook Pro

Mar 1, 2006

Apple releases the MacBook Pro

Zune

Nov 14, 2006

Microsoft launches Zune, their attemptat a portable music device