Bill Gates/Steve Jobs Timeline



Bill Gates/Steve Jobs Timeline

1971- Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems.

1972- After graduating from Homestead High School in Sunnyvale, CA, Jobs enrolls in Reed College in Portland, Ore. He drops out after one semester.

Wozniak perfects the Blue Box, and Jobs sells it. He builds his first computer, but it catches fire.

1974- Jobs lands a job at Atari Inc., designing computer games.

1975- Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop a BASIC Interpreter for the Altair.

Bill Gates drops out of Harvard to pursue a career in software.

Paul Allen and Bill Gates decide to call their company Microsoft.

Wozniak, fearing that his bosses at HP will appropriate the invention, shows them the prototype for the Apple I. They hate it.

1976- Jobs, 21, and Wozniak, 26, found Apple Computer Co in the Woz's family garage.

1977- Apple II is introduced for $1,195.00. It has 16K of RAM and customers use their own TV set as a monitor.

Apple tries to license BASIC .

The Computer Faire - the Apple booth is a huge success.

1978- Microsoft's year-end sales top $1 million

1979- Microsoft adapts BASIC for the 8086 16-bit microprocessor. This marks the beginning of widespread use of these processors.

1980- Microsoft hires Steve Ballmer to establish policies and procedures in the financial, organizational, and resource allocation areas.

Microsoft is approached by IBM to develop BASIC for its personal computer project. The IBM PC is released in August, 1981. The contract contains a crucial provision - that Microsoft can license its software to other manufacturers.

Apple has captured 50% of the personal computer market. Apple goes public in November at $22 a share

1981- IBM introduces its Personal Computer, which uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0, plus Microsoft BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL, and other Microsoft products.

1982- Seeing Apple's new interface, Gates sets his team to create Windows, a graphical interface for the PC.

Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement.

1983- Paul Allen resigns as Microsoft's Executive Vice President, but remains on the Board of Directors.

Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse, a low-cost, hand-held pointing device for use with the IBM PC, as well as any MS-DOS-based personal computer.

Microsoft Introduces Word

Microsoft Announces Windows

Jobs recruits John Sculley, formerly of PepsiCo., as Apple president & CEO, while Jobs retains the title of chairman

1984- Apple introduces the Macintosh. It has a simple, graphical interface, uses the 8-MHz, 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and has a built-in 9-inch B/W screen.

Ridley Scott directs the "1984" Mac commercial, which implies that IBM is Big Brother and Apple a Winston Smith who really does defeat the regime.

Microsoft Makes software available for the Macintosh

1985- Microsoft celebrates its 10th anniversary with sales figures for the fiscal year of $140 million

Sculley ousts Jobs from Apple. Wozniak resigns in February. More than 1,200 employees are laid off in a restructuring in June. Jobs resigns from Apple to run NeXT

1986- Microsoft stock goes public at $21.00 per share, rising to $28.00 per share by the end of the first trading day

Microsoft employees number 1,442

Jobs buys a majority stake in Pixar, a San Rafael studio spun off from LucasFilm.

1987- Microsoft announces Microsoft Operating System/2 (MS OS/2) a new personal computer operating system. It has been designed and developed based upon the Intel 80286 and 80386 microprocessors.

Microsoft announces Microsoft Windows 2.0

1989- Microsoft's sales reach $1 billion

Next's first computer, which is powerful but incompatible with millions of others, goes on sale for $10,000.

Pixar wins an academy award for the computer animated film "Tin Toy."

Jobs is named Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine.

1990- The Woz begins teaching

1992- President George Bush awards Bill Gates the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement, at a White House Rose Garden ceremony.

1993- Microsoft Introduces MS-DOS 6.0

The number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 million

Microsoft is named the "1993 Most Innovative Company Operating in the U.S." by Fortune Magazine

Microsoft formally launches Microsoft Windows NT at Windows World in Atlanta

Next shuts down its hardware division. However, its operating system flourishes.

Sculley resigns as Apple's CEO

1995- The U.S. Court of Appeals reinstates a 1994 antitrust settlement between Microsoft and the Justice Department

Pixar stock opens at $49 per share, making Jobs a billionaire.

Gil Amelio brings Jobs back to Apple as interim chairman and CEO of Apple Computers

1996- Bill Gates outlines Microsoft's strategy to deliver a comprehensive set of products and services that seamlessly integrate desktops, LANs, client-server applications, legacy systems, and the public Internet

MSNBC Debuts

1997- Microsoft Acquires WebTV

Internet Explorer 4.0 Launches

Apple buys NeXT Inc.

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