On January 24, 1984, the guys behind Apple released “Mac System Software 1.0” on their original Macintosh commercial computer. The interesting thing, though, is Apple was technically the first company out of the two to release an operating system that used a graphical user interface (GUI).

Apple followed nearly exactly a year later on Apin Cupertino, California. Microsoft came first, founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1975. The question of when the companies were founded is a pretty easy one. This is perhaps one of the biggest tech rivalries in the world, but the question I’m exploring today is which company came first? Which was the first to release an operating system? The first to release a tablet PC or smartphone? The first to create a billionaire?

Check back here every week and hopefully you will learn something new about the technology world I thought I would start up a little section here on Neowin, where every Tuesday I will post some sort of (hopefully) interesting piece of tech trivia or fact.

Millionaire Trivia for apple instal