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By Motley Fool Staff – Updated Nov 15, 2016 at 12:06AM

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NASDAQ: MSFT

Microsoft Corporation

Market Cap

$1,774B

Today's Change

(-0.20%) -$0.47

Current Price

$237.45

Price as of September 26, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a non-virtual date this week. What's behind the new romance?

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates made a rare joint appearance this week. The onetime rivals had many a nice thing to say about each other. What's behind the new romance? Is it true love or a mutual fear of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)? And what does Steve Jobs have to say about that dumpy PC guy in the Apple commercials? In this installment of Fool Video, I put these questions to Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.

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Stocks Mentioned

Microsoft Corporation

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Apple Inc.

AAPL

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Alphabet Inc.

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$98.17 (-0.58%) $0.57

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