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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 476.06-0.5%2:38 PM EST
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To: FR1 who wrote (7883)5/23/1998 5:12:00 AM
From: Hal Rubel  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
The Debt of Gratitude Apple Owes Microsoft for Inventing the Mac OS

RE"Don't forget that it was MSFT (not Apple) that did most of the early work on the Apple interface (that is where windows came from - remember the suit?)."

Looks Like Big Brother Has Been Rewriting History:
Franz, if you want to have a little fun, drop that one on the Apple Board and stand back. It will look like sharks at feeding time. Blood in the water and snapping teeth everywhere.

You are right that Microsoft was helping Apple at about this time. The law suit was actually Apple suing Microsoft. It was about the supposed fact that Microsoft was actually helping itself to something that it was not entitled to while working with Apple's engineers and programmers. It was just about this time that people in the industry started counting their fingers after shaking hands with Bill Gates. Apple won't make that mistake again. At the time Microsoft was "helping" Apple by the development of a graphic word processor called Word and a graphic spreadsheet called Excel, which appeared on the DOS platform 2 1/2 years after it appeared on the Mac.

But, I could be wrong. You might just ask on the Apple Board. They are really nice folks and would be delighted to gently enlighten you on any such innocent point.

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