{"id":579287,"date":"2010-05-26T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-okay-this-really-puts-the-microsoft-apple-battle-in-perspective-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-26T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T09:43:00","slug":"okay-this-really-puts-the-microsoft-apple-war-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579287","title":{"rendered":"Okay, This Really Puts The Microsoft-Apple War In Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bfac7147f8b9ab319010400\/chart-of-teh-day-market-capitalization-microsoft-vs-apple-052410.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart of teh day, Market Capitalization: Microsoft Vs. Apple, 05\/24\/10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-market-capitalization-microsoft-vs-apple-2010-5\">we&#8217;ve noted<\/a>, Apple&#8217;s market capitalization is now one relatively good stock-market day away from surpassing Microsoft&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be surprising to the folks who have fallen in love with Apple&#8217;s products in the past several years, but to those who were around in the late 1990s, when a collapsing Apple was kept alive by a cash injection from Microsoft, it&#8217;s remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple of statistics that really put it in perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As of yesterday&#8217;s close, Apple had a market cap of <strong>$223 billion<\/strong>, versus Microsoft&#8217;s <strong>$228 billion<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A decade ago, when Steve Ballmer took over as CEO of Microsoft and Steve Jobs had recently reclaimed the CEO slot at Apple, Apple had a market cap of <strong>$16 billion<\/strong> and Microsoft had a market cap of <strong>$556 billion<\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704026204575266461788503940.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\">Nick Wingfield, WSJ<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past decade, in other words, Apple has gained about $210 billion of market value and Microsoft has lost about $225 billion. Put differently, a decade ago, Microsoft was worth $440 billion more than Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs has certainly earned his $1 salary.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s a good thing Steve Ballmer is paid $1.25 million a year&#8211;because the value of his stock in the company has been cut in half.<\/p>\n<p>By one key measure, moreover, Apple has already surpassed Microsoft&#8217;s value.&nbsp; As of yesterday&#8217;s close, once the companies&#8217; stock market capitalizations are adjusted for the value of the cash and debt on each company&#8217;s balance sheet (&#8220;enterprise value&#8221;), Apple&#8217;s business was worth $200 billion and Microsoft&#8217;s was worth $197 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a changing of the guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-okay-this-really-puts-the-microsoft-apple-battle-in-perspective-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-rd-for-tech-companies-2010-5\">CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Spends Eight Times As Much On R&amp;D As Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-market-capitalization-microsoft-vs-apple-2010-5\">CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Market Cap Just $5 Billion Behind Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-the-real-reason-microsofts-robbie-bach-was-fired-2010-5\">&quot;The Real Reason Microsoft&#8217;s Robbie Bach Was Fired&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/y09uFHXWkk0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve noted, Apple&#8217;s market capitalization is now one relatively good stock-market day away from surpassing Microsoft&#8217;s. This may not be surprising to the folks who have fallen in love with Apple&#8217;s products in the past several years, but to those who were around in the late 1990s, when a collapsing Apple was kept alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}