Microsoft was officially established on April 4^th, 1975 and after launching their first Disk Operating System (DOS) in 1980 Microsoft quickly began to grow into one of the biggest names in personal computing. On the other end, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded their company, Apple, on April 1^st 1976, just short of one year after the inception of Microsoft. Unlike Microsoft, who chose to focus on operating systems for other people’s hardware, Apple began their business by selling bare-bones hand-built computer kits, named the Apple I.

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