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To: Star Traveler

I was under the impression that in the 90’s MS made it so their Office Suite would run on an Apple.
They did it to avoid the the imminent collapse of Apple computer and to avoid the monopoly that came with that.

I really don’t know, follow or care though.


135 posted on 04/26/2010 8:01:29 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

No, it was the settlement of a possible multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Microsoft by Apple ... I’ll get the information for you ... be back ... :-)


136 posted on 04/26/2010 8:03:46 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: mowowie
I was under the impression that in the 90’s MS made it so their Office Suite would run on an Apple.

You've got it backwards. Microsoft Word and Excel were written FOR Apple under contract to them. Office for Mac came before Office for Windows.

149 posted on 04/26/2010 9:38:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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