You’re dancing, Discostu. MS had already sold those 8,000,000 copies of Office...those were the older versions already in the market... remember Office 97 had NOT BEEN RELEASED.
Mac users were really pissed off to have IE made the default browser. Many if not most switched back to their familiar Netscape that was in the same “
Internet Applications” folder with Internet Explorer. You are not now and were not a Mac user in 1997 but you claim to know what Mac users did back then. Switching back to Netscape was as easy as double clicking on the familiar Netscape icon next to IE’s icon.
You say “I admitted” that MS sold the stock for a profit as though I were denying it. I have not. It’s irrelevant as to why the stock was purchased in the first place.
You have reduced yourself to ad hominem attacks in implying I am insane. Why not admit the facts and stop the dancing around them.
I’m not dancing at all, you’re ignoring the point. They were going to pull Office for Mac, then thanks to the agreement they didn’t, that meant they had another version to sell to those 8 million customers. Office 98, Office 2001 and Office for OSX all came out during the window of the agreement, my numbers only assumed they sold one of those three (on average) to each of those 8 million customers or their replacements.
Lots of people were pissed about IE being the default browser, Mac people were just behind the curve on that. Didn’t stop IE from winning the browser war.
What you’re now denying is that MS made tons of money on the deal. You tried to say they were taken to the cleaners, but you yourself said they sold the stock at a profit, even if that’s ALL the profit they made on the deal (which it isn’t) that would mean they weren’t taken to the cleaners.
I’m not implying you’re insane, I’m saying you’re living in denial. It bothers you that MS didn’t lose on the deal, it’s important to you that they were taken to the cleaners, but the facts are they made at least 10 to 1 on the deal, the facts are they were not taken to the cleaners, the facts are you’re doing EXACTLY what you accuse everybody who ever says anything bad about Macs of doing: spreading FUD.