Microsoft employee got fired by Steve Ballmer , Funny video!!

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DirtyP2002 said:

old_gamer said:

Not again....

Microsoft DID not "SAVE" Apple.

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This piece of misinformation comes around from time to time. This was in fact a part of settlement agreement due to Microsoft "borrowing" some code from quicktime and a long standing patent lawsuit on that issue.

The "mistake" was stealing the code that lead to this event, not the token $150M investment itself.

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there were patent issues, but you have to be a fool to think MS did not save apple. 150m dollar investment and offering office on a Mac (!!! That is like publishing Halo on the PS3, just bigger.) is far more than Apple could have ever got out of this patent-stuff.  Even today it would hurt Apple if MS says they won't publish any Office software on the mac from now on.

check this vid. You can hear how Steve Jobs knows that MS just saved them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY

It was a mutually beneficial deal.

Like any other company, MS isn't in the habit of "saving" their competitors. It buys them or it crushes them. They wouldn't have signed the deal if they didn't think that they stood to gain from it. Whether that gain was a favourable settlement of a patent suit or using Mac OS as a hedge against anti-trust charges is speculation.

MS Office support is important to Apple, but various MS software, including Office, had been available on Mac for years before this deal, so it's hard to view continued support as a big rescue operation. It's also hard to view the investment as a life-saver when Apple was sitting on cash reserves of $1.2 billion at the time. Still, Apple obviously thought they stood to gain from the deal, or they wouldn't have signed it either.

It's too bad that MS sold those shares long ago. That $150 million investment would be worth close to $5 billion today. That's some mad bank, even for a behemoth like MS.