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Steve Job and Steve Wosniak (the co-founders of Apple) met through a mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, who became the first apple employee
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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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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico and released their first product called the Altair Basic (a now discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language)
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Apple is founded by Wozniak, Jobs, and Wayne. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formally created Apple and introduced their first computer, the Apple I, which had just 4KB of RAM (about 2,000,000 times less RAM than the average computer used today).
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Apple made public their second generation computer, the Apple II, which was the first personal computer offered to the general public and featured 48KB RAM capacity.
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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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After a two year hiatus, Apple released their third generation laptop, the Apple III, a business oriented personal computer that ran the Apple SOS operating system.
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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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Apple released the Lisa, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) offered to the general public, but it was a commercial failure owing to its high price and few programme titles.
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Microsoft UK is started.
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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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Pepsico’s John Sculley is hired as CEO of Apple.
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The first Macintosh computer (also known as the Mac) was introduced, it was the first successful personal computer with a user-friendly graphical user interface.
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IBM and Microsoft sign a joint development agreement.
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Microsoft is allowed to use Mac technology & Jobs is fired.
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Microsoft offers stock, each stock was worth $21.
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Apple released the second generation Mac computer, The Macintosh II which was the first coloured Mac
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Microsoft release V 2.03 with many improvements taken from Mac.
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Following the success of the Mac, Apple decided to introduce the Macintosh Portable, a more smaller computer. Although it was "lighter," transporting it would still take considerable strength due to its weight of roughly 16 pounds.
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Windows 3.0 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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Sculley joins Spectrum instead of Apple
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Windows NT is introduced by Microsoft
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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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Allowing Microsoft Office to be accessed on the MacIntosh II.
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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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Apple OS X is a new operating system for the Mac. They also introduced the iMac, the first "all-in-one" Macintosh. The iMac was famous for its colourful, transparent backs and its slogan, "Hello."
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Apple launched the laptop version of the iMac
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introduced the media player iTunes and released the first iPod
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software was released, which included iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and Safari
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The iPod mini was released the same year that iTunes was released in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It was also the year that the iPod received its first colour screen.
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Apple introduces two new Intel-powered computers: the iMac and the MacBook Pro.
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The first smartphone made by Apple was released, called the iPhone
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Apple released the MacBook Air, which at the time was the thinnest laptop.
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added a voice controlled/activated assistant to the iPhone,
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Apple introduced iCloud, an online media storage system, people were able to backup all their files to "the cloud" they could access from other devices whenever they wanted.
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The release of Microsoft Surface, a line of Windows-based personal computing devices designed and manufactured by Microsoft's hardware division.
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Apple released Apple Pay, a mobile paying service and the Apple Watch.
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Microsoft releases Windows 10, which serves as a "universal" application architecture for a variety of Microsoft product families.
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released the Airpods; Apple’s wireless earbuds.
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Apple released the iPhone X, the first iPhone with facial recognition technology and no home button. Apple also released iOS 11, which combined the lock screen and notification centre, included new camera settings and the ability to screen record.
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Apple released the Airpod Pro wireless earbuds with noise cancellation and iOS 13 which included a new system wide dark mode, the ability to swipe on the keyboard and a big change in how the iPhone handled privacy; especially accessing of location.
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Xbox Series X and Series S consoles are released
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Released Windows 11 which is the first major release from Microsoft since 2015
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Apple released the iOS 16 update allowing a completely customizable and redesigned lock screen, along with the ability to create multiple lock screens, relocation of notifications, and an improved do not disturb mode.