- Microsoft has an Apple Macintosh on prominent display at its Redmond headquarters.
- It might surprise some who remember the decades that Microsoft and Apple spent as the fiercest of competitors. However, many Microsoft products, like Microsoft Office, made their debut on the Macintosh, even as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates turned into the bitterest of frenemies.
- Microsoft acknowledging this history so publicly could be a sign of its changing culture.
If you've been following this stuff for a while, you think of Microsoft and Apple as bitter rivals — before there was iPhone vs. Android, or even Facebook vs. Snapchat, the biggest fight in tech was Mac vs. PC.
So it might be somewhat jarring to visit the recently-revamped Microsoft Visitor Center at its Redmond campus, only to find that the very first Apple Macintosh is proudly displayed, right next to other significant artifacts like Bill Gates' first business card.
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