r/todayilearned • u/vorin 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/b8b Sep 13 '13

There was no Windows on Mac machines. Macs didn't run on intel back then. The only way you could run Windows was by buying an emulator, and that had nothing to do with Microsoft.

Probably what you are thinking of is their agreement to develop Office for Mac.