I decided I'm not a hostile-takeover kind of guy. If they had [asked] me to come back, it might have been different.

Steve Jobs on the takeover bid, quoted in a Time article from December 1996

A new foundation for the Mac OS

It was one year later that Steve’s return to Apple was set into motion. In November 1996, the company was looking for a new operating system for its future Macs. The Mac OS was bloated with old technologies, slow, and unadapted to modern computers. Apple had been working for some time on an internal project called Copland, yet it was constantly being