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#19 Becoming Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates on Steve Jobs Simplicity
While he worked with the team on a new product planning and yet another round of restructuring, Steve also took on a unique project he had been handed by Anderson. To convince Bill Gates to continue to support the Macintosh with new versions of the company's productivity applications like Excel and Word. Early in 1997 Gates had said that he couldn't guarantee that Microsoft would build a new version of Office for the Mac. His reluctance made sense with Macintosh sales and a tailspin following the introduction of Windows 95. It was more difficult for Gates to justify the expense of supporting the Mac. But as Mac sales tanked, so did so too did his enthusiasm for supporting Apple.
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