I will make this very short: "Great TV movie with outstanding performances by Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall!"I loved watching the "fights" between Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) and also showing that Steve Jobs was not always a very human / kind person in his early years makes this movie believable and watchable.Please make a sequel: I wish they would consider making a sequel showing the period from 1997 until now for the world to see what Steve Jobs actually accomplished after returning again to Apple (in 1997) after he was more or less kicked out by the board of directors in 1985!!!

This film was one of those ones, that tries to remain unbiased, but you can clearly see it is, in a small way.First of all, this film often depicts Microsoft as some kind of ruthless company, that didn't have any ethics or morals, despite them even paying the creator of QDOS a large sum of cash, without even knowing if the general public would be interested. While both companies took that risk, Apple simply took apart an old computer, inserted a MOS 6502 chip, and called their own. Not to mention, they originally ran on Microsoft's software, in which they were literally begging Microsoft not to cut their support after they refused to pay the licensing fee.Also, Microsoft never stole anything from Apple. In the movie, Jobs get's angry with Gates, claiming they took their software, changed a few things, and called it their own. But yet currently, their OS is built on FreeBSD, something they didn't even make. The fact is the idea for a GUI (Graphical User Interface for those non-tech savvy people) had been floating around for ages, Apple made it first, but Gates was working on something similar at the same time. You can't copyright ideas, if so, Apple wouldn't be able to use it either.Also comes the fact that Xerox never showed particular interest in either company, they simply wanted the best.This movie is fun to watch, 10/10 for that, but if I was to get real critical, the biased ways of this film are a bit in favor of Apple.

This quite efficient docu-drama is on its way to become a cult movie for those who are interested in the history of hi-tech. Realized by the end of the 'bubble' i.e. the period when computers and networking companies seemed to develop endlessly and made of their nerd or hippies or both founders riches it succeeds to catch the attention by using up to the verge of confusion the same kind of techniques used when telling about the times of the hippies. It does not matter that much that the super-gifted engineers and the capitalists in jeans were very different kind of characters than the flower-power boys and gals, the trick works quite well. The film survived well the almost decade since its making because it has pace, because it focuses on the characters of the founders of Apple and Microsoft and tells well the story of their ascension and of their conflict and because that conflict was really an important step in the hitech saga and remains to a large extent actual until today. Some of the historical details and timeline may not be accurate, but this is after all not the most important thing in the genre, what is important is to catch the essence of the true story and to tell it well on screen. This happens here and works pretty well.

The subject is very interesting. I love both Steve and Bill. However unfortunately the film could not conduct the hard efforts they put in their professional and personal lives. I saw the film once but I think some scenes were redundant and could have been left out and replaced with Bill or Steves' inspiring actions or competitions. I think the film should have been maybe 3 hours and of course more in details. The context music is wonderful and really impressing. Actors make up was splendid. Bill, Steve, Ballmer and others look like their real characters. Also they played very natural and close to their real counterparts. Nice job overall.