1985 was a really interesting time though. The Mac was hugely popular after one year. I remember going to Kinko's at 11:00 PM to work on a document and there was a bank of Macs with people furiously working on something for class. The PC was mostly for the recently introduced WordPerfect at law firms and trucking companies with a dot matrix printer. It was exactly at this time (April 1985) that Jobs was essentially fired from Apple. Jobs sold all of his Apple stock except one share. Apple would remain a single product company (Macintosh) until the iPhone was introduced in 2007, 22 years. Today the Mac is the "endpoint for the C-suite" in many large businesses, although corporate adoption on the level of the PC is mostly non-existent.
Not much so in Europe, the first time I got to see Mac Classic in person was in 1994, and I was already messing with computers since 1986.
At the university we had Mac LC range, at two specific places, one DTP room and the secretaries on the computing department, everyone else was either using Windows for Workgroups or UNIX (DG/UX), which during my years there, eventually transitioned to dual booting Windows 9X/Red-Hat on client machines, and Solaris/Red-Hat on the UNIX servers.
The Mac users either kept the same devices, or eventually transitioned to Windows.
We had some NeXTSTEP stations, and due to uncertain times, the critical software was ported, my thesis for example was a port from a visualization framework using particle systems, originally developed on NeXTSTEP, so that others could do further research on it, but using C++ on Windows instead of Objective-C on NeXTSTEP.
This shows how much sentiment was there at the time that either company would survive.
