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APPLE• How it started? The first home computer with a GUI or graphical user interface w

as the Apple Lisa. The very first graphical user interface was developed by the Xerox Corporation at their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s. Steve Jobs, visited PARC in 1979 (after buying Xerox stock) and was impressed and influenced by the Xerox Alto, the first computer ever with a graphical user interface. Jobs designed the new Apple Lisa based on the technology he saw at Xerox.

• Who started it? On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released

the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer.

• Where did it started? Apple was started in Cupertino, California, U.S.A

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MICROSOFT• How it started? It’s the 1970s. At work, we rely on typewriters. If we need to copy

a document, we likely use a mimeograph or carbon paper. Few have heard of microcomputers, but two young computer enthusiasts, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, see that personal computing is a path to the future.

In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most start-ups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision—a computer on every desktop and in every home. During the next years, Microsoft begins to change the ways we work.

Who started it? Microsoft found by Paul Allen (left) and Bill Gates. Where did it started? It started in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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• What major products do apple sell?

Apple sells many things such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook pro ect.

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• What major products do Microsoft sell? They make computers, microsoft office word, and Z

une and Xbox and Xbox 360.

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• What is apple most popular product or products now?

Ipone is the most popular product, because everybody use phone.

• What is microsoft most popular product or products now?

Windows7 is the most popular product.

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apple In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion

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