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To: Prognosticator who wrote (1498)2/18/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1600
 
Why then do they still produce Office for Macintosh, and Internet Explorer for Unix (or at least claim to)?

I'm not sure. It's certainly not for revenue. I think Office for the Mac is to make Office even more of a standard (if that's possible). That way it makes the move from the Mac to the PC even easier, since people already know how to use the software (Office). IE for Unix is most likely to validate COM on the Unix platform. I don't know though, since I don't know what capabilities there are in it.

It's probably a just ploy to make it look like they care about other platforms.



To: Prognosticator who wrote (1498)2/19/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Respond to of 1600
 
Why then do they still produce Office for Macintosh,

So that they have it as a bargaining chip. They can use it to force Apple to do things by threatening to stop developing it.

It is documented that they have done this in the past, many times.

This is called extortion. After all, it wouldn't be a useful lever if they didn't have monopoly power, now would it?

Criminals, they belong in jail.


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