Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A Janairu 1997 Macworld Expo, Jobs ya sanar da cewa Apple zai shiga Microsoft don sakin sabbin nau'ikan Microsoft Office don Macintosh, kuma Microsoft ya sanya dala miliyan 150 a hannun jarin Apple mara jefa kuri'a. A ranar 10 ga Nuwamba, 1997, Apple ya gabatar da gidan yanar gizon Apple Store, wanda ke da alaƙa da sabon tsarin ƙirar tsari. An kammala sayen NeXT a ranar 9 ga Fabrairu, 1997, yana dawo da Ayyuka zuwa Apple a matsayin mai ba da shawara. A ranar 9 ga Yuli, 1997, kwamitin gudanarwa ya kori Amelio bayan ya kula da farashin hannun jari mafi ƙarancin shekaru uku da asarar kuɗi. Jobs ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaba na wucin gadi kuma ya fara sake fasalin layin kamfanin; a wannan lokacin ne ya gano ƙirar ƙirar Jonathan Ive, kuma ma'auratan sun yi aiki tare don sake gina matsayin Apple.A ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1998, Apple ya gabatar da sabon kwamfuta mai amfani da komputa wanda yake tunatar da Macintosh 128K: iMac. Ive ne ya jagoranci ƙungiyar ƙirar iMac, wanda daga baya zai tsara iPod da iPhone. iMac ya ƙunshi fasahar zamani da ƙira ta musamman, kuma ya sayar da kusan raka'a 800,000 a cikin watanni biyar na farko. A wannan lokacin, Apple ya kammala sayayya da yawa don ƙirƙirar fayil na software na samar da dijital don ƙwararru da masu amfani. A cikin 1998, Apple ya sayi aikin software na Macromedia's Key Grip, yana nuna faɗaɗa cikin kasuwar gyaran bidiyo na dijital. Sayarwar ta kasance sakamakon shawarar Macromedia ne kawai don mai da hankali kan software na ci gaban yanar gizo. A samfurin, har yanzu unfinished a lokacin da sayarwa, aka sake masa suna "Karshe Yanke Pro" a lokacin da aka kaddamar a kan kiri kasuwa a watan Afrilu 1999. Ci gaban Key Grip ya kuma haifar da Apple ta saki na mabukaci video-gyara samfurin iMovie a watan Oktoba 1999. Bayan haka, Apple ya samu nasarar sayen kamfanin Jamus Astarte, wanda ya kirkiro fasahar samar da DVD, da kuma samfuran Astarte da injiniyoyin injiniya a watan Afrilu 2000. Kayan aikin dijital na Astarte DVDirector daga baya aka canza shi zuwa DVD mai ƙwarewa...  Tambaya: Yaushe aka tilasta Amelio daga hukumar?
9 ga Yuli, 1997