Which came first, Apple or Windows?
Which came first, Apple or Windows?
Apple
1976 — 9 years before Windows
Apple came first, by 9 years. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
Side by side
| Apple | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1976 | 1985 |
| Date | 1976-04-01 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | company | technology |
| What happened | Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
Apple
Apple was founded on 1 April 1976, a year and a day after Microsoft. Ronald Wayne, the third founder, sold his 10% stake back for $800 twelve days later. The Apple I was a bare circuit board sold for $666.66; the Apple II of 1977 was the machine that made the company.
Windows
Windows 1.0 shipped in November 1985, twenty-two months after the Macintosh, and it was not an operating system — it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS, and remained so until Windows NT in 1993 and the consumer transition with Windows XP in 2001. Version 1.0 could not even overlap windows: they tiled, because Apple's legal position on overlapping windows was unresolved.
Common questions
- Which came first, Apple or Windows?
- Apple, by 9 years — 1976 against 1985.
- When did Apple start?
- 1976. Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne founded Apple Computer Company.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
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