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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Kim who wrote (60484)	8/9/2001 10:25:00 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Dave, Mac Office was/is very profitable for Microsoft. They would have been shooting themselves in the foot if they had dropped it. Yes. Thanks for reinforcing my point, that it was worth a lot of money to Microsoft to make their no-revenue-earning Internet Explorer the default browser for Mac OS. They were willing to risk sacrificing Office for the Mac to make it happen. But they wouldn't have been shooting themselves in the foot. If Apple had gone out of business, which they might well have done without Microsoft's dirty money, Mac users would STILL buy Office; they would just buy it for Windows. I do recall (correct me if my memory is faulty) that ahead of either the Power Mac or the System 7 launch Quark declared the Mac had no future and suggested that its user base and other software developers shift to Windows. So guess who's layout software didn't get pushed by Apple? I don't see the point. Why would Apple "push" software that was no longer being maintained by its publisher? But I don't remember the incident you're talking about, sorry. A quick search on groups.google.com didn't turn anything up. Dave