August 6, 1997 (Landmarks July fourth day), "Microsoft" and "Apple" announced a cooperation plan.



Steve - Steve Jobs (bottom left) - Bill Gates (top right), co-chaired the press conference
August 1997, the U.S. Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve - Jobs with the company's annual meeting in Boston on a large computer screen Microsoft Chairman Bill - Gates announced that Microsoft would invest $ 150 million to buy some Apple stock and Apple in the next five years to provide applicable develop applicable software in commercial software for the Apple Macintosh computer, in order to join hands with the Apple company in the face of adversity.
a long time, "Microsoft" and "Apple" their respective operating systems developed are not mutually compatible, self-contained. Apple Computer in the late 1980s was seen as the easiest to operate the PC, its special graphical way to win a large number of users. But two years ago, when Microsoft launched Windows 95, use the DOS operating system users turn to the handy new operating platform, so that the advantages of the "Apple" gradually lost.
"Microsoft" and "Apple" marriage, Wall Street investors snapped up Apple stock the day Apple's stock price rose 30%.
Jobs and Gates