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• Spinmeisters - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT
• Spinmeisters - Authored by: Tyro on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT
  • Spinmeisters - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 07:54 PM EDT

I do not think this is a coincidence. Apple is the one company which Microsoft had to grant clear long term "IP" licenses to out of the anti-trust cases of the 90s. Apple has always been the sold other system favoured with a version of Microsoft Office. Neither company can afford to destroy the other. There's very clearly an Apple/Microsoft/sort of Nokia cartel aiming to work towards a split of the different parts of the computing industry.

If you were Microsoft and you were negotiating that with Apple, it's pretty clear that you, as an already convicted monopolist, would want Apple to do most of the dirty work since their risk is much lower. I'd imagine that in some way or other Apple has agreed to vigorously pursue these type of cases first in return for a whole load of benefit from Microsoft.

If this was true, how would you follow up and demonstrate it? I'm guessing that these would largely be "golf course" agreements.

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• memories of mid-'90's MS $$ going to Apple - Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 09:24 AM EDT