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Apple licensed part of the Macintosh operating system to Microsoft which they used to create their Windows operating system. With subsequent releases of Windows Apple felt that Microsoft were using more of Apple's ideas than had originally been agreed under the licensing deal and started legal proceedings against Microsoft. It was later discovered that Microsoft had based their Media Player on the software Apple had written for QuickTime which resulted in further legal action. These disputes ran on for many years and were finally resolved in 1997 when Apple agreed to make internet Explorer their default browser on the Mac, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement.

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14y ago

No. Steve Jobs (from Apple) and Bill Gates (from Microsoft) did not develop the Windows operating system. After Apple launched Macintosh they licensed part of the designs of the Macintosh operating system to Microsoft who used it to develop their own system called Windows.

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Are you stupid of course he did just kidding he didn't invent windows

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were friends. When Jobs had thought and created it, Gates stole it and made it his own :( Afterwards, Jobs enraged, created Apple.

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