Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously had his sprawling, high-tech sixty-three-million-dollar Washington estate known as Xanadu 2.0 designed and modeled entirely using an Apple Macintosh computer.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates famously had his sprawling, high-tech sixty-three-million-dollar Washington estate known as Xanadu 2.0 designed and modeled entirely using an Apple Macintosh computer. At the height of the brutal operating system wars in the early nineties, the architectural firm handling the massive project insisted on using Apple hardware because Microsoft's own software was simply not capable of handling the complex design rendering. There is a delicious, heavy irony in knowing that the ultimate billionaire fortress built entirely on the massive profits of Windows could not have structurally existed without relying on the exact competitor he was desperately trying to crush into oblivion