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apple by far. Apple is the richest company in the world!
Microsoft, Samsung, dell.
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Microsoft seems to have bigger sales numbers when it comes to desktop computers and laptop computers. Apple computers are far more expensive. However, Apple has Microsoft beat when it comes to the sale of tablets and MP3 players.
Microsoft, Dell, Apple or Futureshop
Apple, they got caught by them
Microsoft was started in 1975 and Apple in 1976. They worked together on a BASIC programming language called AppleSoft BASIC - the name being a combination of Apple and Microsoftfor the Apple computer. Microsoft also produced a Z80 processor card as an add-on for the Apple II computer. Apple developed the Mac OS for their Macintosh computer, which first appeared in 1984, and licensed part of the Mac OS to Microsoft to use in their Windows operating system which appeared in 1985.
Windows is an operating system produced by the Microsoft company. Windows is not a computer or a company. The first Apple computer was sold in July 1976. The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system was sold in 1985.
No, Apple is slightly smaller than Cisco Systems
For personal Computers it's Dell and Microsoft.
In what sense is Microsoft more successful than Apple? Apple has a revenue of $42.9 billion (2009 figure) compared to Microsoft's $40.2 billion (2010 figure). It is true that Microsoft is a larger company with 89,000 employees (Apple has 34,300 employees) but they are different companies doing different things which occasionally overlap but are not in direct competition. Apple produces a range of hardware - computers, phones, etc. that Microsoft does not. When they do operate in the same market, for example Apple's iPod and Microsoft's Zune, Apple is around 10 times more successful than Microsoft.