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To: Spktyr

Maybe maybe not. MS had been threatening to pull off the platform, which would have hurt Mac immensely. MS’s agreement to keep making Office for Mac didn’t really cost MS anything, and helped Mac a lot, then MS turns around a makes a tasty profit on the stock. If what MS got out of that is for being on their way to losing I’d kill to lose some suits like that.


152 posted on 04/12/2008 4:55:14 PM PDT by discostu (aliens ate my Buick)
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To: discostu
Maybe maybe not. MS had been threatening to pull off the platform, which would have hurt Mac immensely. MS’s agreement to keep making Office for Mac didn’t really cost MS anything, and helped Mac a lot, then MS turns around a makes a tasty profit on the stock. If what MS got out of that is for being on their way to losing I’d kill to lose some suits like that.

Why do you think they were threatening to pull off the platform? They were using it to attempt to force Apple into dropping the suit because they were losing. Instead the threat got them into a settlement negotiation in which they essentially gave Apple everything in exchange for what? Apple's agreement to put Internet Explorer on Macs... a free browser? Microsoft was taken to the cleaners in this negotiation because THEY wanted the lawsuit they were losing over and done with.

183 posted on 04/13/2008 3:45:30 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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