[Bush2000]

But because of huge cash reserves, Apple held on FOR YEARS, until Jobs returned to rescue the firm.

Get real. The only reason Apple kept afloat was because M$ pumped over $100 million into it to encourage the use of IE for Mac ... not because they'd amassed some huge pile of cash. Sheez ...

[sevry]

amassed some huge pile of cash.

That was generally the opinion. Cash reserves. Sculley did Apple no favors in his management or style. Jobs was right about that. As for Microsoft co-authoring, wasn't that the case for Truetype, along with Adobe? I believe Apple still insists upon its right to 'hint' said fonts. I don't know if they've ever pursued a font-maker on that basis.