After that, he leased it out for several years until 2000 when he stopped maintaining the house, allowing exposure to the weather to degrade it. In 2004, Jobs received permission from the town of Woodside to demolish the house in order to build a smaller contemporary styled one. After a few years in court, the house was finally demolished in 2011, a few months before he died. 56In early 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh, which was based on The Lisa (and Xerox PARCs mouse-driven graphical user interface). 57 58 The following year, Apple aired a Super Bowl television commercial titled 1984. At Apples annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as pandemonium. 59Despite the fanfare, the expensive Macintosh was a hard sell. 60 Shortly after its release in 1985, Bill Gates then-developing company, Microsoft, threatened to stop developing Mac applications unless it was granted a license for the Mac operating system software. Microsoft was developing its graphical user interface ... for DOS, which it was calling Windows and didnt want Apple to sue over the similarities between the Windows GUI and the Mac interface. 61 Sculley granted Microsoft the license which later led to problems for Apple. 61 In addition, cheap IBM PC clones that ran on Microsoft software and had a graphical user interface began to appear. Although the Macintosh preceded the clones, it was far more expensive, so through the late 80s, the Windows user interface was getting better and better and was thus taking increasingly more share from Apple. 62 Windows based IBM-PC clones also led to the development of additional GUIs such as IBMs TopView or Digital Researchs GEM, 62 and thus the graphical user interface was beginning to be taken for granted, undermining the most apparent advantage of the Mac...it seemed clear as the 80s wound down that Apple couldnt go it alone indefinately against the whole IBM-clone market. 62Sculley and Jobss visions for the company greatly differed. The former favored open architecture computers like the Apple II, sold to education, small business, and home markets less vulnerable to IBM. Jobs wanted the company to focus on the closed architecture Macintosh as a business alternative to the IBM PC. President and CEO Sculley had little control over chairman of the board Jobss Macintosh division it and the Apple II division operated like separate companies, duplicating services. 63 Although its products provided 85 of Apples sales in early 1985, the companys January 1985 annual meeting did not mention the Apple II division or employees. Many left including Wozniak, who stated that the company had been going in the wrong direction for the last five years and sold most of his stock. 64 The Macintoshs failure to defeat the PC strengthened Sculleys position in the company.In May 1985, Sculley (encouraged by Arthur Rock) decided to reorganize Apple, and proposed a plan to the board that would remove Jobs from the Macintosh group and put him in charge of New Product Development. This move would effectively render Jobs powerless within Apple. 7 In response, then Jobs developed a plan to get rid of Sculley and take over Apple. However, after the plan was leaked and Jobs confronted, he said that he would leave Apple. The Board declined his resignation and asked him to reconsider. Sculley also told Jobs that he had all of the votes needed to go ahead with the reorganization. A few months later, on September 17, 1985, Jobs turned in a letter of resignation to the Apple Board. Five additional senior Apple employees also resigned and joined Jobs in his new venture, NeXT. 7You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that its humorous, all the attention to it, because its hardly the most insightful or valuable thing thats happened to me in the past ten years. But it makes me feel old, sometimes, when I speak at a campus and I find that what students are most in awe of is the fact that Im a millionaire. When I went to school, it was right after the Sixties and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in. Now students arent even thinking in idealistic terms, or at least nowhere near as much. They certainly are not letting any of the philosophical issues of the day take up too much of their time as they study their business majors. The idealistic wind of the Sixties was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.Steve Jobs, Playboy interview, 1985 65I was worth over a million dollars when I was 23. And over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25. And you know, it wasnt that important, because I never did it for the money. I think money is a wonderful thing, because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that dont have a short-term payback. At that time in my life, it was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the company, the people, the products we were making. And what we were going to enable people to do with these products. So I didnt think about the money a great deal. I never sold any stock. I just believed that the company would do very well over the long term.Steve Jobs, 1995. From the documentary, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. 11Jobs founded NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation from Apple 66 with 7160million. A year later he was running out of money, and with no product on the horizon, he sought venture capital. Eventually, Jobs attracted the attention of billionaire Ross Perot who invested heavily in the company. 67 The NeXT computer was shown to the world at what was considered Jobss come back event, 68 a lavish (invitation only) gala launch event 69 and was described as a multimedia extravaganza. 70 It was held at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California on Wednesday October 12, 1988.NeXT workstations were first released in 1990, priced at US9,999 . Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced, but was largely dismissed as cost-prohibitive by the educational sector for which it was designed. 71 The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development system.