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Pirates Of Silicon Valley is a great TV movie about the computer age and its two visionaries namely: the late Steve Jobs and Bill Gates,two men who who made the world of technology what it is today;their struggles during college;the founding of their companies; and the ingenious actions they took to build up their global corporate empires.The film also shows how computers came about,its history and development.Aside from that,it tells the history of Apple Computer Corporation and Microsoft.Pirates was an adaptation of the book,Fire In The Valley.The story opens with the creation of the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer, which introduced the first Macintosh.Steve Jobs is speaking with director Ridley Scott, trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott, however, is more concerned at the moment with the technical aspects of the commercial.Then,it flashes forward to 1997 as Jobs, who has returned to Apple, is announcing a new deal with Microsoft at the 1997 Macworld Expo. His partner, Steve Wozniak, is introduced as one of the two central narrators of the story. Wozniak notes to the audience the resemblance between "Big Brother" and the image of Bill Gates on the screen behind Jobs during this announcement. Asking how they "got from there to here," the film turns to flashbacks of his youth with Jobs, prior to the forming of Apple.The first flashback of the film takes place on the U.C. Berkeley campus during the period of the early seventies student movements. Jobs and Wozniak are shown caught on the campus during a riot between students and police. They flee and after finding safety, Jobs states to Wozniak, "Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are." Wozniak then comments that "Steve was never like you or me. He always saw things differently. Even when I was in Berkeley, I would see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards while he'd see karma or the meaning of the universe."Using a similar structure, the film next turns to a young Bill Gates at Harvard University, in the early 1970s, with classmate Steve Ballmer and Gates' high school friend Paul Allen. As with Wozniak in the earlier segment, Ballmer narrates Gates' story, particularly the moment when Gates discovers the existence of the MITS Altair (causing him to drop out of Harvard).Gates' and Allen's early work with MITS is juxtaposed against the involvement of Jobs and Wozniak with the Homebrew Computer Club,eventually leading to the development of the Apple I in 1976 with the help of angel investor Mike Markkula. The story follows the protagonists as they develop their technology and their businesses. At a San Francisco computer fair where the Apple II computer is introduced, Gates,attempts to introduce himself to Jobs, who snubs him.Then follows the consequent development of the IBM-PC with the help of Gates and Microsoft in 1981. Meanwhile, Apple has developed The Lisa and later, the Macintosh, computers which were inspired by the Xerox Alto. The main body of the film finally concludes with a birthday toast in 1985 to Steve Jobs shortly before he was fired by CEO John Sculley from Apple Computer.It also includes a brief epilogue, noting what happened afterward in the lives of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The movie ends with Steve Jobs returning to Apple after its acquisition of NeXT Computer, and Bill Gates appearing live via satellite at a MacWorld Expo in 1997, during Jobs' first Stevenote keynote address, to announce an alliance between Apple and Microsoft.The movie has great acting especially by Noah Wyle who played the late Steve Jobs convincingly.The story was well written and the direction was not boring that you could watch it over and over again.I own the new DVD release version.I consider it one of my favorite movies considering I am Engineer in the computer industry.This is TV movie is not only for engineers and computer enthusiasts but people who want to know more about Gates and the late Steve Jobs.

This is a documentary sort of video that shows the history of Windows and Apple as of 1999 or so. It shows how a bunch of guys with an interesting childhood cheat and find their way to create what we now know as Microsoft and Apple. The video showed many scenes that gave us a (slightly exaggerated but it's TV!) look into what they had to deal with to get what they wanted.I was a bit disappointed, regardless of how true it was, with some scenes. I am fully aware that most, if not all of what it shows actually happened. However they could have shown the stripper club scene a bit better, and it's sad to see the language involved. However, this is history in the making, and the 70s-90s were a very interesting time for Microsoft and Apple with technology.Rated 8/10!

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.

If you want to watch this film to shape your opinion on both Jobs and Gates, I suggest you create your own opinion first on the other sources. But while you already know whom you hate and whom you love, you'll be thrilled with that movie. Imagine a film, which you feel from the very beginning, a film that makes you forget about the ugliness of world, a film that provide you the whole range of emotions, a film that makes you think, a film that makes you feel stunningly and magically wonderful.. If you are a kind of a person capable of feeling above mentioned emotions, there should be no point for wondering whether "Pirates of Silicon Valley" are worth watching. Just start watching it. You will move in the age of cheerful 70's and 80's in a such gentle and instant way you won't even realize that you were living in the 21st century. The atmosphere of the times is rendered flawlessly and perfectly just to switch off your PPC mental CPU and use the good old 68k. The outstanding and incredibly honest performance of Noah Wyle will create a 'hard-copy' of a picture of the real Steve Jobs in you mind for ever.