Two College dropouts person worked in the personal computer age just like a binary star system. Jobs dropped out of college to find enlightenment, but a lawyer's son BillGates dropped out of Harward to start a computer software company. Jobs stared at people with burning and wounding, but Gates had trouble making eye contact with people. Jobs and Gates are opposite characters. When the Macintosh was underdeveloped, Jobs went to Gates at his office. Microsoft wrote some applications for Apple 2. Microsoft accepted his project with the code-named SAND(Steve Amazing New Device). Jobs wanted Microsoft to write an application program for Macintosh that is word and spreadsheet. Gates sighed a graphical version of a new spreadsheet called Excel. Word processing is known as Microsoft word. Gates's Microsoft company applications worked in Machintosh. Each application rate is $10 per computer. Microsoft's application was attached to the mac with the apple logo. Microsoft makes software for various platforms. It makes software for IBM PC rather than MAC version.
Jobs and Gates attended a press dinner at New York's Tavern on the Green. Asked if Microsoft would make a version of it for IBM PCs, Gates did not reveal the bargain he had made with Jobs but merely answered that "in time" that might happen. Jobs took the microphone. "I'm sure 'in time' we'll all be dead," he joked.
Microsoft produced an operating system DOS for IBM computers. So Jobs and his team worried they would copy Mac's graphical user interface. Jobs convinced Gates that Microsoft would not create a graphical interface for anyone other than Apple until the year MAC shipped in January 1983. Unfortunately, the MAC didn't launch a particular year. So Gates revealed in November 1983. Microsoft planned to develop an operating system for IBM PCs featuring graphical user interface windows, icons and point-click navigation. It would be called windows. Jobs called Gates into his office and shouted at him in front of his Apple employee. He complained Gates stole his project. Gates was very cool, and then he replied to him. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and identified that you had already stolen it."
Jobs and gates walked on the street of Cupertino. Jobs said okay, but don't make it too much like what we're doing. Windows 1.0 was a shoddy project. That lacked the elegance of the MAC interface. Years later, Jobs said, "The only problem with Microsoft is they have no taste. they have absolutely no taste."
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