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With a HUGE infusion of cash from Microsoft.
by rplst8 3y ago
With a HUGE infusion of cash from Microsoft.
- detourdog 3y agoAlso known as a lawsuit settlement. it wasn’t that large, much less huge. The big commitment to was to providing Office.
- scyzoryk_xyz 3y agoWhich probably had something to do with that anti-trust battle Microsoft fought right around then, no?
- detourdog 3y agoDefinitely. They supported office on the Mac to prove that Windows wasn't a monopoly and paid Apple $150 million dollars in a cross-licensing deal give each company complete access to current IP. The thought was that Apple would use the windows IP to provide Redbox access to the new MacOS. See Apple and Red, Yellow, and Blue boxes.