Bill Gates commented on the main flaw of Steve Jobs, his greatest rival

The rivalry between Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and Steve Jobs, who presided over the empire Manzana, has been coming for a long time. The two computer brains, at a young age, worked together to shape the 20th century computer science.

During an interview with The Indian Expressthe Microsoft founder weighed the lessons Jobs learned and included one of the defects which he has come to regard as part of the former Apple CEO’s personality.

“I learned a lot from Steve, we were very different, we’ve never looked anything alike, but his sense of design, of marketing, was total. Steve was an extraordinary person. I worked a lot. He overworked his employees, so it wasn’t perfectbut it was incredible,” he commented.

The two were part of the same company, which generated a lot of friction at the time. At that time, computing was the new thing and young developers were willing to change the worldview.

Their relationship dates back to the 1970s, when Microsoft generated much of its revenue by designing software for Apple II. However, the rivalry between these two geniuses intensified as they battled to capture the emerging personal computer market.

Each had his own goals and obsessions. While Jobs was known for prioritizing design and quality, he believed that products should be beautiful both inside and out. Both agreed they should be easy to use.

While Gates, has focused his gaze more on functionality and efficiency. For him, the most important thing was the utility it could offer. However, this rivalry helped shape the world as we know it today.

In the 1980s, Jobs began development of the original Macintosh and wanted Microsoft to create a version of BASIC and other application programs. The founder of Microsoft often traveled to Cupertino to see demonstrations of the Macintosh operating system.

Apple versus Microsoft, a lifelong dispute

Although he was unimpressed, Microsoft assigned a large team to create applications for the Mac. And, although Jobs thought they lacked good taste, Microsoft programmers persisted and improved their applications.

In 1985, the year the former Apple CEO was ousted from his company, Jobs accused Gates of copying Apple’s user interface to develop “Windows 1.0,” Microsoft’s first operating system for PCs.

Gates understood that the graphical interfaces were the future and that Microsoft had as much right as Apple to use the idea of ​​the desktop metaphor, originally developed by the Xerox research center.

Gates’ response was no less forceful. “Steve, I think there’s another way to look at it. It’s like we both have a rich neighbor named Xerox, and I broke into his house to steal the TV only to find you’ve already done it.”

The exchange of accusations escalated until the Microsoft genius assured his biographer that Jobs was “a rare person and a flawed human being.”

Jobs’ response was immediate, describing him as “stiff”, “unimaginative” and that “he had never invented anything”.