As of 2025, Apple and Microsoft are two of the biggest companies in the world, alternating the title of the world's most valuable company. Both companies have market caps of over $3 trillion.

Fighting words: Apple’s ‘Post-PC’ and Microsoft’s ‘PC Plus’ were never that different Both Jobs and Gates insisted that the PC would continue to both evolve and endure, surrounded by a ...

When Apple brings new software and services to its devices, it does so with the deliberate aim of making them stand apart from the rest, which is precisely what Microsoft’s now working to reverse.

According to CNET, Teksler said the deal with Microsoft provided access to all patents in the Apple v. Samsung case, but with provisions to prevent clones. The Verge notes that the anti-cloning ...