Apple was big, rich and famous, because of the Apple II. So little Microsoft became the Mac's biggest backer and biggest supplier of software, and Bill Gates was featured at the Mac launch.
Excel and the graphical version of Word were written for the Mac, and PowerPoint -- a Mac program -- was bought in to make the first Microsoft Office suite, which was launched on the Mac.
Gates also offered to help Apple license Mac OS widely to make it an industry standard.
Apple didn't see the point of selling $100 software when it could sell $2,500-$3,500 computers.
That world started to change after 1990, when Windows 3 began to take off.
Excel and the graphical version of Word were written for the Mac, and PowerPoint -- a Mac program -- was bought in to make the first Microsoft Office suite, which was launched on the Mac.
Gates also offered to help Apple license Mac OS widely to make it an industry standard.
Apple didn't see the point of selling $100 software when it could sell $2,500-$3,500 computers.
That world started to change after 1990, when Windows 3 began to take off.