1982-1984
The IBM PC released, it was a success despite minor flaws in the OS, Two years later, Apple released the Apple Lisa, it was an absolute Commercial Failure despite the innovative GUI and were trailing behind competitors such as the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC, as a last ditch effort Steve Jobs would be in-charge of a whole new project, The Apple Macintosh this would be Steve Job's Last chance to have any sort of control in the company as many were starting to distrust him including CEO John Sculley, in October 1983 the Macintosh would be revealed with a release date of 1984, Sculley unhappy with Steve Jobs oversaw development of another Project, The Apple GD (Short for Golden Delicious), The Apple GD mixed elements of the Apple II in with the idea of a GUI, The Macintosh sold well but not enough to satisfy Apple and Jobs left the Company soon after its release, The Apple GD was Apple's last chance to make a profit, innovative ideas such as a color GUI,contributed to the GD being sold less as a business computer and more for recreation akin to the Commodore or Atari features such as once you insteted the floppy the program would instantly start off, this would coin the term "Convenience Entertainment" as the GD did not require much to set-up and its programs loaded fast and it was a machine ahead of its time
Meanwhile Mircosoft its MS-DOS scrapped started to decide to get into a hardware business, it started development of a Computer known as the Mircosoft Estate, it was a computer for Business and its OS, Mircosoft Windows would be just that, many considered it to be a "Business Commodore" as programs would be loaded on a floppy and many functions were extremely similar to the Commodore such as lacking a GUI.