Steve Jobs did his thing during the presentation of Mac OS X Tiger in June 2005!
As the co-founder and CEO of one of the world’s most popular companies, Steve Jobs, allowed hundreds of eccentricities. Many of them are told by those closest to them, and others for which there is evidence. One of them includes a public mockery against its great competitionMicrosoft.
In 2005, everyone followed the laughter of Steve Jobs, thanks to one of his comments in the middle of the presentation of the operating system of their computers, enjoy a losing streak from Bill Gates’ company
Steve Jobs took advantage of a timely competition error
While the release of Mac OS X Tiger on June 6, 2005Steve Jobs sat in front of his computer demonstrating how the timer app widgets worked. To demonstrate the use, Jobs llamó “Longhorn” when testing an event that would occur several days later. The name choice clearly referred to the Windows code name announced by Microsoft two years earlier.
For most of those present, this hint was very timely. But to understand Jobs’ joke, it is necessary to be in the context of what had happened at Microsoft over those years.
After the success of Windows XP, It took Gates’ company nearly seven years to update its operating system, originally called “Longhorn”.. During the 2003 Developer Conference, Windows announced that the next operating system would be ready by 2006. But soon after, several glitches and errors made it clear that things were not going as planned and in 2004, the company decides to relaunch the project, finally presented in 2007 under the name of Windows Vista
Today, Windows Vista is considered one of the worst versions of Microsoft’s operating system. Even in the early years of its development, these shortcomings were no secret, and Jobs didn’t want to overlook this weakness.
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