"The excitement peaked on August 8, 1908, when Wilbur Wright made his first flight in public at the Hunaudieres race course, five miles south of Le Mans, France"
"Microsoft launched Excel in 1985 exclusively on the Macintosh. It was that counterintuitive decision to launch on its competitor’s computer while Lotus 1-2-3 was stuck on its own MS-DOS" - crazy that microsoft recognised its own deficiency (difficult UI) and took a big bet with their competitor. Microsoft and Apple's relationship has been complicated from the start