You must be watching too many conspiracy movies like Pirates of Silicon Valley. Get your facts straight about the licensing agreement both companies had and the lawsuit Apple lost because of it. And the PARC project. That too.
Sorry, but I’ve had to work with both systems. To me, Microsoft is the Yugo of the industry. Poor products, poorly thought out and even more poorly executed.
To each his own.
No, the story is clear. Bill Gates was working with Jobs to adapt his Word software to the Mac and then went back and developed windows as a copy of the Mac OS.
But that does not matter because Apple has always been able to make products that inspired people and women in particular. Things like smartphones existed unsuccessfully for years before the iphone. Same thing with the Dell MP3 vs. ipod. Apple just made it more pallatable.