By: Aseem Gaurav on January 28, 2012
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' friendship was much deeper than we usually imagine. During a recent interview, Bill Gates revealed the details of an intimate letter that he sent to Steve Jobs shortly before Jobs passed away in October. The letter apparently meant so much to Jobs that he kept it at his bedside.
"I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built," Gates said in the interview. "We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing," he said.
He further emphasized that despite corporate competition both of them were at good terms with each other by the time Jobs became gravely ill late last year.Gates said he discussed Job's kids in the letter and brushed aside Job's critical remarks against him in his biography.
It is well known that the duo shared a complex relationship. Although known to be friends, they competed with each other, and played pivotal role in changing the technology world into its present form now.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg at the D5 conference in 2007, both made complementary remarks, with Jobs praising Gates over the first true software company, and likewise, Gates saying Jobs' populist approach has steered Apple to new heights.
