Apple shares rose 2.8 percent on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Wednesday, when shares of Microsoft flounder, pushing its market value to be above 229 billion dollars in front of these old rivals.

Although both weakened by indiscriminate selling of shares at end of trade, but Apple’s lead with a capitalization of 222 billion dollars in market value compared to Microsoft which only 219 billion dollars according to Reuters data.

Apple shares closed down 0.4 percent at 244.11 dollars on the Nasdaq, while Microsoft fell 4 percent to its lowest level in seven months to 25.01 dollars.

Apple shares worth more than 10 times the value 10 years ago, when they benefited from the revolution that stylish consumers electronics, products that are easy to use as iPod, iPhone, and MacBook laptops.

The last time Apple has a higher market value than Microsoft on December 19, 1989 according to Thomson Reuters Datastream.

Microsoft, owner of the operating system which runs on more than 90 percent of personal computers in the world, has not been able to match the rate of growth in the year 1990. Its shares were down 20 percent from the value 10 years ago.

Apple, which struggled for years to be able to place their products as a mainstream, was forced to add a 150 million dollar investment is much greater than Microsoft in 1997 was done to stay afloat. At that time, Microsoft’s market value more than five times the value of Apple.

Microsoft still above Apple in sales. In the last quarter, Microsoft reported revenues reached 14,5 billion dollars compared to Apple’s 13.5 billion dollars.