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12 Pivotal Events In Steve Jobs' Apple Career

By Rick Whiting CRN
2:15 PM ET Thu. Aug. 25, 2011
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The Apple-Microsoft Alliance

Apple and arch-rival Microsoft shocked the industry in 1997 when they formed an alliance, including a $150 million investment by Microsoft in the financially struggling Apple. Microsoft also promised to develop versions of Office and Internet Explorer for the Mac.

The deal was disclosed during a Jobs keynote at Macworld in Boston in 1997, which included a surprise video appearance by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.

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