Apple-Microsoft Timeline

By Camila Orrantia

  • Apple was founded

    Apple was founded
    Steave Jobs founded Apple and Steve Wozniak made by hand in Jobs house the first computer

  • Microsoft was founded

    Microsoft was founded
    Founded by William H. Gates III y Paul Allen. And made the BASIC language programation for the Altair 8800 and buy the licence of this softwar to MITS

  • Microsoft second product

    Microsoft second product
    Microsoft launched its second product, Microsoft FORTRAN, another programming language, and soon took versions of the BASIC language for microprocessors 8080 and 8086.

  • Apple second computer

    Apple second computer
    The first computers went on sale.The Apple II was introduced

  • Apple progress

    Applesoft I is released on cassette.
    Feb: Apple II Reference Manual (also known as the “Red Book“) released.
    May: Contact, Apple’s first user newsletter, begins publication.
    June: Disk II floppy disk drive introduced.
    July:Apple DOS 3.1 released.
    August: Apple II Serial Interface Card released.

  • Apple

    Epson releases the MX-80, one of the first low-cost dot-matrix printers. To improve the transmission of data packets between different networks, an Internet Protocol (IP) is added to the previous TCP concept, and the combination is officially called TCP/IP

  • Apple programs

    Intel introduces the 8088 processor.
    A database program called Vulcan by Wayne Ratliff appears; it later is known by the name dBase II.
    June: Apple II Plus introduced. Applesoft Firmware Card released for Apple II, making it possible for these older computers to use Applesoft.
    August: Apple Pascal and the Language System released.

  • Microsoft and IBM

    Microsoft and IBM
    IBM hired Microsoft to write the operating system for IBM PC

  • Apple III

    Apple III introduced. It had the 6502B processor, came with a built-in disk drive and four peripheral slots.
    Softalk begins publication.

  • Microsoft programs

    Microsoft began developing a series of applications for commercial PC. In this year was released Multiplan a spreadsheet program,

  • Windows Microsoft

    Microsoft released Windows, an operating system that benefits extended MS-DOS and incorporated for the first time a graphical user interface.

  • Microsoft advance

    Microsoft had licensed MS-DOS 200 computer manufacturers, and thus the operating system became the most widely used PC, which allowed Microsoft to grow rapidly in the 1980s.

  • Macintoch

    The Macintosh was a declaration that the power of the computer now belonged to everyone. It was approachable and friendly, starting with the smiley face that greeted you. There were folders that looked like file folders and a trash can for throwing things away. And with the click of a mous

  • Apple MAcintosh Portable

    John Knoll it was his co-invention of Photoshop, with his brother Thomas, that helped change design and photography forever. Originally developed on the Mac, Photoshop gave photographers new, faster ways to manipulate images and allowed them to push creative boundaries.

  • Microsoft leading software

    Microsoft became the leading software company and had annual sales of over one billion dollars. After Windows 3.0, which was followed by Windows 3.1 and 3.11.

  • Microsoft new ways

    Microsoft and IBM ended a decade of collaboration when they decided to follow different paths in the next generation of operating systems for personal computers. IBM continued with an old joint project with Microsoft, an operating system called OS / 2

  • Apple Music

    Hans Zimmer has used the power and simplicity of the Mac to express the sounds he hears in his head. Zimmer wasn’t able to attend the recording sessions in South Africa, but the Mac allowed him to take disparate pieces performed far away and meld them into an award-winning soundtrack.

  • Microsoft advances

    Microsoft began operating in the field of media and created The Microsoft Network and a year later MSNBC.

  • Microsoft stop

    U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues preliminary injunction forcing Microsoft to stop, at least temporarily, requiring manufacturers who sell Windows 95 to install Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The company appeals.

  • Apple Internet

    In a stroke of brilliance, Alex Townsend, along with Graham Kinrade and John Thornley, decided to outfit a bus with Mac computers and then drive it to different schools to connect to the school’s network providing kids with Internet access for the first time.

  • Microsoft Monopoly

    U.S. District Court judge finds that Microsoft holds monopoly power in the market for PC operating systems, and the company's actions harmed consumers.

  • iPod

    with technology Apple created the firts iPod so people could display the music they download.

  • Microsoft Problems

    Oct. 9, 2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court declines Microsoft's request that it overturn an earlier ruling by a lower court finding the company guilty of violating antitrust laws.