Apple VS Microsoft

In the last few weeks, the tech industry's biggest players have shown off their newest software and hardware, all aiming to make big moves before the end of the year. Apple has iOS 6 and the new MacBook Pros, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface and is preparing Windows 8 for launch.

It should be much more exciting than last year. What did 2011 have? A spec bump on the iPhone and iPad, a slow warming to the Windows Phone ecosystem, and the lackluster launches of a social network and (failed) desktop platform by Google. By comparison, 2012 should be a battle royale.
Everything old is new again in technology. Apple arguably created the PC market with easy-to-use interfaces that made Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system look unnecessarily difficult. But everybody knows that it was only a matter of time before Microsoft out-maneuvered almost everybody and became the dominant force in PCs, nearly crushing Apple in the process.

Then about a decade ago it all started to change again. Leveraging the success of the iPod, Apple ultimately introduced the iPhone and iPad and in so doing significantly shifted the market once again, and left some asking if there was any need for a PC anymore. This put Microsoft in the unfamiliar position of being not only back on its heels, but perhaps not even relevant anymore - the bully from Redmond was seeing its once captive customers migrating to platforms where Windows not only didn't dominate, but could barely compete.

With the recently announced release of the Microsoft Surface tablet, it is worth asking whether or not Microsoft is riding Apple's coattails, or whether this is a case of the empire striking back and showing that it can adapt to what the market has clearly said it wants.

-Apple

Big changes are afoot this year: a truly new iPhone is expected, sure, but June's announcements already telegraphed their intentions: a return to the high end, and freezing out Google.

After aggressively pricing almost all their hardware via partnerships and ruthless negotiation with manufacturers, Apple has managed to push its products down from luxury to the mainstream. The iPhone is now considered a standard device, and the MacBook Air, once incredibly overpriced, is now setting the bar for PC laptops.

This has given Apple the market share to start selling extremely expensive things again, starting with the Retina MacBook Pro. Soon there will likely be a 13-inch version as well, and they will both sell like hotcakes — even at around $2,000 per unit. The cheapest new iPhone will probably still cost $200 to consumers, but only because Verizon and AT&T will have no choice but to subsidize it.

iOS 6 is on its way as well, and it's evident that Apple is using its mobile platform as both carrot and stick. Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and more are getting the red carpet treatment, integrated right into the OS. But Google is getting the cold shoulder as Apple moves to its own maps and tries to get users to ask Siri instead of Google.

What could go wrong? If Google's Android OS was more mature and more evenly upgraded (that is, less "fragmented"), it could pose a threat to Apple's near-monopoly in the hugely profitable paid-apps ecosystem. And Apple is still lagging behind in cloud services, losing out on many fronts — including file sharing and storage, streaming media, email and Web apps — to Google, Microsoft, and smaller companies. Apple can only keep you attached to their services if those services are competitive, and the competition is moving faster than they are. And be honest: iOS and OS X are both starting to look a bit old.

-Microsoft

The year 2012 will be looked on as a watershed moment in the company's history: Windows 8 is the biggest change ever made to the world's most popular OS, and opinions are in no way unanimous on the new look and feel. But Microsoft hopes to build on their success in the living room and make Windows and Xbox an ecosystem families and friends can live in, not just a set of isolated products.

The Surface tablet is Microsoft's way of telling the world that it's ready to move on from the desktops and laptops that put the company where it is today. And Windows Phone 8 is Microsoft learning from its mobile OS mistakes and saying "this time for real." The next Xbox isn't ready, but you'd better believe it's being conceived as the third piece in this puzzle.

Connecting the TV, PC and mobile (the so-called "three screens" strategy) has ever been a hope of Microsoft's, but it's not until now that the company's had the presence on the TV, the credibility on mobile, and the audacity to actually change what constitutes a PC. This year and the next will be a crucible for the company as it is forced to abandon traditions and partners, but if it's going to remain a force in consumer tech, these are necessary steps.


Plenty could go awry, though, and if one piece fails, the others are weakened. Windows 8 could fail to gain traction as a replacement for Windows 7, to which many millions of people and companies have only recently switched. Leaving behind 10 or 20 years of applications and hardware isn't something small businesses and casual computer users are likely to do.

Similarly, Windows Phone 8 will have a lot to prove when it debuts, first because the platform may have lost the support of many early adopters by not fully upgrading devices currently running Windows Phone 7 and 7.5, and second because Microsoft may simply not have the superstar hardware that will be needed to take consumers' eyes off the next iPhone.

the story of the richest young people in the world - mark zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in the area called Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, the city of New York.Anak of Edward and Karen Zuckerberg. He was the second of four children of parents dentist couple - psychiatrist. Since childhood, Zuckerberg likes tinkering with computers, computer programs and trying to learn him. His father bought him a computer since he was eight years old. While in high school Phillips Exeter Academy, he and his partner, D'Angelo, create plug-ins for Winamp MP3 player. Plug-in is a computer program that can interact with the host application such as a web browser or email for a particular purpose.

Zuckerberg and D'Angelo makes a plug-in to gather preferences of people towards various types of songs and then make his playlist suit their tastes. They sent it to the program to a variety of companies including AOL (American Online) and Microsoft. In his last year at Phillips he was recruited by Microsoft and AOL for a project.

Currently the school went to college they should be separated. D'Angelo entered Caltech while Zuckerberg entered Harvard. In this Harvard Zuckerberg found the idea of making books online student directory because the university did not share the face book (a book containing photographs and student in the university's student ID) at the new student as a forum of friendship between them. But every time he volunteered to make the directory, Harvard refused. "They said they have reason not to collect information (student)," said Zuckerberg then. 

Though denied he was always looking for ways to make it happen. "I wanted to show that it can be done," he continued stubborn about making the directory.

CourseMatch first project is (www.coursematch.com) that allows classmates to communicate with each other on the website. One night in his second year at Harvard, Harvard student Zuckerberg sabotage of data and put it into a website he created called Facemash. Some photos fellow student posted there. Not to forget he put a sentence that asks patrons to determine which of these pictures are the most "hot". Pancingannya hit. Within four hours since he launched the webiste it recorded 450 people visited by 22,000 photos Facemash and they're open. Harvard parties know it and the internet connection was disconnected. Sued Zuckerberg for stealing data. This curly-haired young man also apologized to colleagues whose pictures go on Facemash. But he did not regret his actions. "I think such information should be available (online)," he said.

facebook

Founder and Objectives

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. An early inspiration Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, a private high school in which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, a book that forces the students referred to as "The Facebook". Such photo directories were an important part of social experience for most students in private schools. With this, students can enroll in a variety of things such as force, their closeness to friends, and their telephone numbers.

After college, Facebook started from just a "Harvard stuff" until Zuckerberg decided to spread to other schools, register with the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first started at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown, and Yale, and then at other schools that had social contacts with Harvard University.

Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends. They rented a small house that served as an office. During the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, they planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in California. They have been rejected by a large company that will buy Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:

It's not about the money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. The company is owned by media conglomerates is just not an interesting idea for me. He revisits the same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "What I care about is the mission, making the world open." Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook.

On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached 500 million users. When asked if he could get more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained: I guess we could ... If you look at how many pages were taken for serving ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads. That's the simple things we could do. But we did not like it. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running, we are growing at the rate we want.


wealth mark zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently known to have more wealth than the founders of Google. According to the annual list released by Forbes magazine, Zuckerberg victory over duo Google boss is for the first time.

surge experienced Zuckerberg position very much. Where previously he was at number 35 last year, now he is in position 14 with a personal net worth reached $ 17.7 billion.

 positions Zuckerberg is just below Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has a wealth of USD 19.2 billion. Quoted detikINET from Mashable, Friday (23/09/2011), the founder of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page each have a wealth of $ 16.7 billion, putting them both in the top 15.

tech billionaires So anyone who is on the list "Richest People in America" is? Microsoft founder Bill Gates was still perched on the top, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at number 3.

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself was pretty much in position 39, then there was Michael Dell (18), Steve Ballmer (19), Paul Allen ( 23), the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar (50), Eric Schmidt (51), George Lucas (107) and Mark Cuban (171).


now own the number of employees has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a unique company. executives and top brass are young, between 24 years-37 years. The headquarters of Facebook more like a dormitory. The employees, who every day gets a free meal rations, working while doing her favorite activity. There are playing guitar, biking, playing airplane controls, or a mixture of rock music accompanied by disc jockey (DJ). They also do not need to be well-dressed. Shorts and flip-flops are their favorite costume in the office. Zuckerberg admitted averse office atmosphere that is too formal.

Though already able to accumulate assets to U.S. $ 3 billion, Zuckerberg still appear as it is, like most young men who enjoyed casual wear.

The Story of the founder of apple - Steve Jobs

the beginning of the story

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 of an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian nationals father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali. However, at birth, he was immediately adopted by the couple Paul and Clara Jobs. Since childhood, Jobs has shown interest in electronic devices. In fact, he called William Hewlett - Hewlett Packard president - to have some electronic components for a school assignment. It just makes moonlighting offered during summer vacation. At Hewlett-Packard Company that he met with Steve Wozniak, who became his partner founded Apple.

Jobs attended Cupertino homestead junior high school and high school in Cupertino, California, and often attend the after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Pacard company in palo alto. California. He then hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. Jobs in 1972 graduated from high school enroll reed san collage in Portland, oregan, though he left after one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as calligraphy class, with sleeping on the floor of his room. Jobs later said, "if I do not attend the lectures of the college's single then the mac will not have the variety of printing letters or letters with sepasi row".

Start founded Apple

Jobs began working in 1974 with a professional technician at Atari. Atari is a company that designed the circuit board. In 1976, Jobs founded the company with Steve Wozniak associates, the company is now known as the white apple logo, Apple. With a vision to change the world, Jobs started his career.

After removing the first computer called Macintosh, Steve Jobs must be willing to be fired by then Apple CEO John Sculley called. Internal tensions resulting rift working relationship also affected by the decline in the performance of the company. Jobs also regarded as a bad-tempered, easy to change your mind and stubborn.

Steve Jobs made Apple Computer first time at age 21 at garage, in aid colleagues Wozniak.

Apple Computer's name was taken because he likes apples.

Steve Jobs started to become a millionaire when she was 27 years old when Apple Computer was 7 years old and he has 7 million shares.

At a very young age Steve Jobs willing to take big decisions start your own business and he is not glued to the capital should be planted.

Capitalize the hard work and vision for the future, he managed to build a giant corporation.

Here is a timeline of the football exploits of Steve Jobs in the tech industry:

1976 -Together with Steve Wozinak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple. Launched its first computer, the    Apple 1.

1979 - Together with a team of Apple visited Xerox and fascinated with GUI that integrates with the mouse

1980 - Apple became a public company. Apple IPO price at that time was the highest after the IPO Ford Motors in 1956. Steve Jobs shares amounting to 15% is worth over 200 million dollars at the time.

1983 - Lisa Computer was first launched, beating the GUI and mouse from Xerox.

1984 - The first Macintosh computer was released. Apple also made a famous advertisement called '1984 'with the theme of Big Brother in accordance with the famous novel at the time.

1985 - Steve Jobs was fired by Apple. After being fired founded Next, computer hardware and software companies.

1986 - George Lucas (director of Star Wars) sold Pixar to Steve Jobs at a price of 100 million dollars.

1988 - The first product from Next: Cube. Appreciated $ 6,500.

1993 - Cube less demand in the market so that Steve Jobs decided to fire half of its staff and more concentrated in software development.

1995 - The first long-Pixar animated film, Toy Story, was released and got a lot of positive criticism. In the same year Pixar went public and make Steve Jobs richer 585 million for 80% stake in Pixar.

1996 - Apple bought Next for $ 430 million dollars. Steve Jobs came back to Apple.

1997 - Steve Jobs became Apple's interim CEO and issue campaigns 'think different'.

1998 - Apple has finally posted a profit again. 3G iMac Mac blue being the fastest selling computer in history. Apple officially ceased toy project their previous CEO, Newton PDA. Pixar released A Bug's Life.

2000 - Steve Jobs officially becomes Apple's CEO. Directors gave Jobs a Jet aircraft (Gulfstream V). In the same year the museum of art in New York (New York's Museum of Modern Art) G4 Cube computer input into its collection.

2001 - Under the control of Steve Jobs, Apple made its first Apple Store, released the iPod and iTunes, as well as changing the OS to start the era of Macintosh OS X. Pixar film studio released the film Monsters Inc, which reap much success as usual.

2002 - Apple released the PowerBook G4 Titanium targeting workers graphic design.

2003 - Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but he and Apple has chosen not to publish it. Music store iTunes Store launches cheapest songs for just $ 0.99. PowerBook G5 became the world's fastest home computers, and Pixar scored hits (again) with the movie Finding Nemo.

2004 - Steve Jobs on the operation and finally announced to the public hospital. Pixar released The Incredibles.

2005 - Apple released the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano. Apple and Motorola jointly released the ROKR E1, the first mobile phone with iTunes, unfortunately not very successful.

2006 - Disney bought Pixar and Steve Jobs became its biggest shareholder with a value of 4.6 billion dollars. Cars the movie was released.

2007 - Apple launches the iPhone. Apple's stock price took off through the $ 199.83 per share. Apple also released Apple TV and iPod Touch.

2008 - Apple issued metal thinnest laptop in the world, MacBook Air 13 "and the latest generation of iPhone, iPhone 3G. In the same year Apple also launched for the iOS app store, App Store with the initial total of not more than 500 applications.

2009 - Steve Jobs leave of 6 months for liver transplant surgery, and made Tim Cook as interim CEO. Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, quit Apple's board after his conflict of interest (Android).

2010 - Apple released the first modern tablet, the iPad. Apple also continues the succession of the iPhone with the release of iPhone 4.

2011 - Apple released the iPad 2 with a smart cover which covers magentik to cover the front of the iPad 2. released iPhone 4 CDMA (Verizon version) and no new iPhone at WWDC. The new version of the Mac Mini MacBook Air was released, not long ago, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Apple also released.

Mid-2011 - Steve Jobs quit Apple. Cause Apple fans mourn, Apple haters cheering, and Apple investors alarmed by the possibility of Apple's stock price will go down.

Steve's love is this that leads back to the Apple orbit elite top tech tools manufacturer. iPod and iPhone is now a product that is in demand in the market. His vision of the future is also made iTunes so successful most successful digital music store in the world. He answered those doubts with real work and brilliant results. Beautiful shape, elegant, simple, yet powerful, the hallmark of Apple products to date.

Our love of what we do will be our path to success. That's evidenced by the figure of Steve Jobs. Even though he had collapsed and "expelled" from his own company, his love of technology to make it back. This is proof that if we love our job with all our heart, the outcome would be far more effective.

Sejarah orang terkaya pembuat microsoft - Bill gates

William Henry Gates III atau lebih dikenal dengan nama Bill Gates dilahirkan pada 28 Oktober 1955, di Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates adalah anak kedua dari tiga bersaudara. Ayahnya William Henry Gates adalah seorang pengacara perusahaan yang punya banyak relasi di kota. Sedangkan ibunya Mary Maxwell seorang pegawai First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell dan anggota Tingkat Nasional United Way.

Bill seorang anak yang cerdas, tetapi dia terlalu penuh semangat dan cenderung sering mengalami kesulitan di sekolah. Ketika dia berumur sebelas tahun, orang tuanya memutuskan untuk membuat perubahan pada dirinya dan mengirimnya ke Lakeside School, sebuah sekolah dasar yang bergengsi khusus bagi anak laki-laki. Di Lakeside itulah pada tahun 1968 Bill Gates untuk pertama kalinya diperkenalkan dengan dunia komputer, dalam bentuk mesin teletype yang dihubungkan dengan telepon ke sebuah komputer pembagian waktu. di sekolah ini pula gates di kenalkan dengan sebuah model komputer sederhana model ASR-33 dan dengan cepat  menguasai bahasa perogram Basic. kecerdasanya pula yang mendorongnya untuk menghabiskan banyak waktu malamnya untuk membuat dan mengolah bahasa perogram . Gates juga dikenal sebagai hacker yang jago. karna kegiatannya itulah gurunya memberikan julukan sebagai 'nerd' atau sang eksentrik.

Bill Gates menempuh kuliah di Harvard University di Cambridge mulai tahun 1975. Di sana ia bertemu dengan Paul Allen sewaktu sekolah bersama-sama. Bersama Paul Allen, Bill Gates terus mengembangkan talentanya di bidang pemograman komputer. Namun, Bill gates memutuskan keluar (drop out) untuk menyumbangkan wakunya ke Microsoft. 

Melalui usaha kerasnya, perusahaan yang ia dirikan yang bernama Microsoft Corporation menjadi sukses dan Bill Gates melambung menjadi seorang jutawan. Di tahun 1990 Bill Gates sukses merilis sistem operasi yang sangat sukses di pasaran dunia.

BIIL GATES SEORANG PENCURI

Kesuksesan Apple ternyata membuat Bill Gates tertarik untuk bekerja disana. Ia lalu mendatangi markas Apple untuk melamar pekerjaan sebagai programmer. Disana, ia bertemu dan diwawancara oleh Steve Jobs. Mungkin karena ia dikenal sebagai pencipta DOS, sehingga Steve percaya dan menerima lamarannya.

Singkat cerita, setelah Bill Gates menjadi bagian dari Apple, ternyata ia mencuri prototype yang sedang dikembangkan Apple. Ia lalu mengembangkan hasil curian tersebut tanpa sepengetahuan Steve Jobs.
Lambat laun, akhirnya Steve Jobs pun mengetahuinya. Ia mendapat kabar bahwa di Jepang sudah beredar komputer dengan program yang mirip dengan prototype Apple itu. Program tersebut tak lain adalah Microsoft Windows. Hal ini membuat Steve sangat marah.

Ada hal menarik yang keluar dari mulut Bill Gates ketika Steve Jobs melabraknya, ia membela diri dengan mengatakan, “Semua mobil ada stirnya. Tapi pencipta stir tidak ada yang protes !”.

Semenjak itu, Bill Gates mengundurkan diri dari Apple dan Microsoft Windows pun semakin berkembang. Hingga pada akhirnya, beberapa tahun kemudian Microsoft mampu membeli sebagian besar saham Apple.

KEKAYAAN BILL GATES

Bill Gates menempati posisi pertama dalam orang terkaya di dunia versi majalah Forbes selama 13 tahun (1995 hingga 2007), namun sejak 5 Maret 2008 berada di posisi ketiga setelah pebisnis AS Warren Buffett dan pebisnis Meksiko Carlos Slim Helú.
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1996 – $18,5 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
1997 – $36,4 milyar, peringkat dunia 2
1998 – $51,0 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
1999 – $90,0 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2000 – $60,0 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2001 – $58,7 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2002 – $52,8 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2003 – $40,7 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2004 – $46,6 milyar, peringkat dunia 1
2010 – $53,0 milyar, peringkat dunia 2
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