apple and microsoft history and contributions?

answers1: Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#History <br>
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Apple, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc#History <br>
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answers2: a million. Socrates - father of western philosophy 2. Moses
- father pf western religions 3. Newton - arguably the final scientist
4. M A Rothschild - influential in finance and economics 5. Columbus
6. Karl Marx 7. Thomas Edison 8. Pythagoras 9. Darwin 10. bill Gates i
think of that quite lots covers the main influential human beings in
each and each field.