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Charlie Taylor: Apple in no humour to let Microsoft take title of world’s largest tech firm

The software company may have briefly overtaken Apple in terms of market valuation last week but the latter won’t cede ‘most-valued’ status willingly

Apple and Microsoft have been rivals since the 1970s

As comebacks go, the resurrection of Microsoft under Satya Nadella has been every bit as impressive as that achieved by Apple following the return of Steve Jobs as chief executive to the company he co-founded in 1997.

With Microsoft having briefly hit a $3 trillion in market valuation last week, the question now is whether the Redmond, Washington-based behemoth can stay ahead of its longstanding rival, and become the world’s biggest tech company for a ...