Bill Gates virtually joins Steve Jobs on stage at the 1997 Macworld conference to pledge a $150 million investment from Microsoft into Apple, which Jobs had said was “90 days away from bankruptcy”.
Bill Gates virtually joins Steve Jobs on stage at the 1997 Macworld conference to pledge a $150 million investment from Microsoft into Apple, which Jobs had said was “90 days away from bankruptcy”.
And after 28 years, how much is those $150 million investment worth?
Just curious….
Stiltonrocks on
To be clear, this was the time Ms was being taken to court for vicious monopolistic business practices, therefore the 150 was an important PR move.
MAurele on
Microsoft needed competition. iirc
K1nd_1 on
Never realized how both Gates and Jobs have interesting last names for what they did/do.
ManFromACK on
I was there. The booing from the audience was real.
danijel8286 on
They made Gates look like the big brother from their “1984” ad. Oopsie.
johnaimarre on
Interesting how the “silver slab with a white Apple logo” aesthetic makes an appearance here all the way back in ‘97, when I usually associate that with the mid-2000s onwards.
Yachtrocker717 on
Bill G looks super chill, did he Zoom in from Epstein island?
Temporary-Daikon2411 on
this was SO huge. also until this point people were buying Windows computers at least in part to get Microsoft Excel, since that was the only computer it ran on — this is when Microsoft said they’d start making software for Macs too.
CapitanianExtinction on
Bill Gates: I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse
Deletereous on
The infamous “big brother” moment.
anosariga on
Wow, talk about a tech time warp! 🤯
Cira_Linny on
back in the day BG and SJ were like the Pepsi and Coke of tech, pushing each other to the max.
kennedye2112 on
And, they announced Internet Explorer for Mac OS, which turned out to actually be an improvement over the Netscape 3.x/4.x versions of the time.
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And after 28 years, how much is those $150 million investment worth?
Just curious….
To be clear, this was the time Ms was being taken to court for vicious monopolistic business practices, therefore the 150 was an important PR move.
Microsoft needed competition. iirc
Never realized how both Gates and Jobs have interesting last names for what they did/do.
I was there. The booing from the audience was real.
They made Gates look like the big brother from their “1984” ad. Oopsie.
Interesting how the “silver slab with a white Apple logo” aesthetic makes an appearance here all the way back in ‘97, when I usually associate that with the mid-2000s onwards.
Bill G looks super chill, did he Zoom in from Epstein island?
this was SO huge. also until this point people were buying Windows computers at least in part to get Microsoft Excel, since that was the only computer it ran on — this is when Microsoft said they’d start making software for Macs too.
Bill Gates: I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse
The infamous “big brother” moment.
Wow, talk about a tech time warp! 🤯
back in the day BG and SJ were like the Pepsi and Coke of tech, pushing each other to the max.
And, they announced Internet Explorer for Mac OS, which turned out to actually be an improvement over the Netscape 3.x/4.x versions of the time.