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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 is founded by Wozniak ,Jobs ,and Wayne.
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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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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 public.
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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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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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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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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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Windows 3.0 released.
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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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US Department of justice alleges Microsoft violates the Sherman Act. Two antitrust cases are filed against Microsoft.
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XP & MAC OS X are released.
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Xbox 360 & MacBook released.
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Vista Released
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Windows 7 & IPad are released.