Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said that consumers should not blame the company for the constant program crashes of the Macintosh computer during the 90s. He said that it was Microsoft's fault.

Wozniak was in Australia for speaking tour covering the Apple's business and philosophy as well as the legacy of Steve Jobs. In the seminar, Wozniak said that he discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer in 1996 that caused some of the Macintosh's programs to crash.

"Everyone who ran Internet Explorer you would have several crashes, every day. Move something into folder, it would crash, and you'd have to restart. Type something, crash restart. Everyone thought it was the OS (Apple's operating system). I guess it kind of was because it was allowing all this to happen. But in reality it was Microsoft Internet Explorer," Wozniak said.

He further supported his statement with what an Apple engineer who invented the Apple I and II that Mac users that run Netscape or another program from Germany called ICAP, never experienced crashes.

He said that a computer that got a bad name may suffer forever. Apple made a computer that allows users to alternate from the Apple II to an Apple III with the flick of a switch.

However, Wozniak said "that turned out to be a horrible decision. It missed its window. Maybe it would have been successful if we rebranded it and called it the Apple four. But we kept calling it a three. It was a big failure for Apple."

Wozniak said to Bloomberg earlier that he would buy Facebook stock no matter what the opening price is. The famous social network is trying to raise as much as $11.8 billion in an initial public offering.

Wozniak was at the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour earlier today then he will head to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre tomorrow.

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