Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company.
Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).
Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.
The worth, known as market capitalisation, is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in a company by the current share price.
Although Apple shares closed down 0.4%, Microsoft fell by 4%.
Apple, which makes computers, iPods, iPhones and now iPads, almost went out of business in the 1990s.
Its growth is partly owing to the launch of the stylish iPod in 2001.
Its compatibility with existing - but not mass-selling - Apple computers lead customers to engage with them, just as Microsoft's products looked set for long-term dominance.
apple -- as much as i like my macbook -- is still not as friendly for the business world as microsoft is. the only thing that apple does at that level is OSX server, but of course apple makes their money in the consumer market
Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn).
Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn.
The worth, known as market capitalisation, is calculated by multiplying the number of shares in a company by the current share price.
Although Apple shares closed down 0.4%, Microsoft fell by 4%.
Apple, which makes computers, iPods, iPhones and now iPads, almost went out of business in the 1990s.
Its growth is partly owing to the launch of the stylish iPod in 2001.
Its compatibility with existing - but not mass-selling - Apple computers lead customers to engage with them, just as Microsoft's products looked set for long-term dominance.
apple -- as much as i like my macbook -- is still not as friendly for the business world as microsoft is. the only thing that apple does at that level is OSX server, but of course apple makes their money in the consumer market
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apple now bigger than microsoft
- 27/05/2010 07:12:48 AM
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1. Hurrah! 2. I believe you are wrong...
- 27/05/2010 08:39:22 AM
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Name five fortune five hundrend companies that run "entirely on Macs" *NM*
- 27/05/2010 02:14:59 PM
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There's hasn't been a company called Apple Computers for years now
- 27/05/2010 02:15:40 PM
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Anything that can be done on Windows can be done on a Mac? Really?
- 27/05/2010 03:01:01 PM
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Yes it will.
- 27/05/2010 03:43:11 PM
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MacOS will run my PC?
- 27/05/2010 04:02:43 PM
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Your stance is a little strange here...
- 27/05/2010 08:33:19 PM
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It isn't hard to make a pc that boots mac
- 27/05/2010 08:58:43 PM
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You can also create a virtual machine running OSX on Windows *NM*
- 28/05/2010 05:10:30 AM
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After Macs switched to Intel processing there were some hacks available to make them run on PCs.
- 27/05/2010 11:35:51 PM
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Do you know why IT will not run virtualization? It is quite simple.
- 27/05/2010 11:31:17 PM
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iDon't approve
- 27/05/2010 08:43:38 AM
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nooo!
- 27/05/2010 10:06:21 AM
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steam is now available for mac
- 27/05/2010 08:04:34 PM
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Have you tried playing steam on a mac?
- 27/05/2010 09:00:06 PM
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even the authors of that article say "we didn't run this on a real mac"
- 28/05/2010 02:44:38 AM
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It was using the mac version of the 285 the most powerful video card on the mac
- 28/05/2010 06:02:33 AM
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it's still a big step though, you have to admit *NM*
- 28/05/2010 07:10:14 AM
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Yeah but I would recommend spend the 100 dollars for an OEM copy of windows and dual boot
- 28/05/2010 11:40:13 PM
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Not only the consumer market though..
- 27/05/2010 10:26:50 AM
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Microsoft is stil in better posistion
- 27/05/2010 02:25:09 PM
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Re: Microsoft is stil in better posistion
- 27/05/2010 07:52:48 PM
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doesn't matter which phone it is what matters is that the i-phone can be replaced and windows can't
- 27/05/2010 08:34:13 PM
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The really big bucks is in server software as every business needs server software to run databases.
- 27/05/2010 11:20:41 PM
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what can't they run on iphones?
- 28/05/2010 02:41:18 AM
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Windows-only programs, presumably. Businesses use more than simple office products.
- 28/05/2010 03:04:14 AM
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to use an oft-quoted phrase: "there's an app for that"
- 28/05/2010 03:30:26 AM
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To use a not-so-oft-quoted phrase, "Not if it doesn't conform to Apple specifications." 
- 28/05/2010 05:53:54 AM
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- 28/05/2010 05:53:54 AM
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the point is, that businesses are finding ways to make it work, even though they don't like it
- 28/05/2010 07:07:31 AM
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Yeah, but their founders claimed to be bigger than Jesus and I didn't believe that either. 
- 27/05/2010 02:50:00 PM
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- 27/05/2010 02:50:00 PM
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True, Apple is definitely moving in the "Evil Empire" direction.
- 27/05/2010 08:36:55 PM
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Re: True, Apple is definitely moving in the "Evil Empire" direction.
- 28/05/2010 12:04:54 AM
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