STEVE JOBS MADE A DEAL WITH THE ENERMY BILL GATES In 1997, Steve Jobs made a deal with the enemy. He took $150 million from Microsoft, the same company many believed had crushed Apple’s future. What followed became one of the most fascinating rivalries and turnarounds in tech history. 1997. Apple was dying. The company had lost billions. Its products were failing. Confidence was gone. Steve Jobs had just returned after 12 years in exile, pushed out of the very company he built. Most people thought Apple was finished. Everyone… except Jobs. He knew he had one last move left. And that move shocked the world. Jobs turned to his fiercest rival: Microsoft. The same company that copied the Mac. The same company that dominated personal computers. The same company Apple loyalists hated with passion. But Jobs understood a brutal truth. Without Microsoft, Apple would not survive. At Macworld 1997, Jobs walked onto the stage. Behind him, a giant screen lit up. Bill Gates appeared via satelli...