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It's official, Apple has passed Microsoft as the most valuable technology company in the world.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64P5PE20100526

Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company

(Reuters) - Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.

Apple's shares rose as much 2.8 percent on Nasdaq on Wednesday, as Microsoft shares floundered, briefly pushing its market value above $229 billion, ahead of its longtime rival.

Both stocks ended down after a late-day sell-off, but Apple emerged ahead with a market value of about $222 billion, compared with Microsoft's $219 billion, according to Reuters data.

Apple shares closed down 0.4 percent at $244.11 on Nasdaq, while Microsoft fell 4 percent to a seven-month low of $25.01.

Shares of Apple are worth more than 10 times what they were 10 years ago, as it has profited from revolutionizing consumer electronics with its stylish, easy to use products such as the iPod, iPhone and MacBook laptops.

The last time Apple had a higher market value than Microsoft was December 19, 1989, according to Thomson Reuters Datastream.

Microsoft, whose operating system runs on more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers, has not been able to match growth rates from its hey-day 1990s. Its stock is down 20 percent from 10 years ago.

Apple, which struggled for many years to get its products into the mainstream, resorted to a $150 million investment from the much larger Microsoft in 1997 in order to keep it afloat. At that time, Microsoft's market value was more than five times that of Apple.

Microsoft still leads Apple in sales. In the latest quarter, Microsoft reported $14.5 billion in revenue compared with Apple's $13.5 billion.

Cupertino, California-based Apple is now the second-largest company on the Standard & Poor's 500 index by market value, behind energy behemoth Exxon Mobil Corp.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

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That pretty amazing actually. Colors and design makes the mainstream happy! Fruit colors horay!



Well, they saw the future need of portable devices far quicker and better than MS. However, I firmly believe in 10 years Google will be ahead of both.



With the IPAD, they will take over the world



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Don't see how Apple and Microsoft stock prices are related to video game sales at all...



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I can only make one comment, or better a warning: People of Redmond, be extremely careful, always wear a helmet and beware of flying chairs!!!



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themanwithnoname said:
Don't see how Apple and Microsoft stock prices are related to video game sales at all...

It says 'Sales Discussion' not 'Video Game Sales Discussion' and anything tech related probably fits the idea of the site in general.



yaaay! they deserve it :D



superchunk said:
Well, they saw the future need of portable devices far quicker and better than MS. However, I firmly believe in 10 years Google will be ahead of both.

I absolutely agree.



That's... interesting! And pretty incredible, too. Well done Apple!



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