Walt Mossberg

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3/ There was also a promise to keep making Office for the Mac. Apple needed this, but Bill Gates told me more than once that, in those days, Microsoft made more profit from each copy of Mac Office than from each copy of Windows Office. So it wasn’t a sacrifice. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2021

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2/ There are a lot of myths about this transaction, which I discussed in detail at the time with both CEOs. For one thing, Microsoft got a patent cross-licensing pact out of the deal. For another, it got to be able to tell the government and others that it had competition. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2021

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4/ Finally, while this was undeniably a big help to Apple, it’s a myth that it was the key to saving the company in the long term. What saved the company was the iMac in 1998, and the family of products it spawned. Without that, Apple would still have gone under. https://t.co/23Bvd0xlLt — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2021