Re: Guru needed

[Michael Williams <daserde@ucla.edu>]

Brett Dikeman decided to speak these words:

>Interesting that this Microsoft-Apple exchange was Microsoft sucking up to
>Apple, and Billy-Bo-Bob Gates has been out kissing ass for the technocolor
>fruit.  Why?  Microsoft Office for the Macintosh is a HUGE cash cow for
>Microsoft.  I believe I remember hearing almost 1/2 of the company's
>revenue comes from Macintosh product sales.  Let's put it this way; they
>don't make big money off of operating systems or browsers.  They make it
>off the applications, and Mac users are the biggest buyers of Word, Excel,
>Office, etc.


Actually, they were sucking up because Apple (actually Steve Jobs at this 
point) had MS over a barrel due to some copyright infringement.  It turns 
out that MS had taken (stole) a lare amount of apple technology and apple 
has been in court with them for a long time now.  Steve took that 
opportunity to say to Gates that he wanted MS's full support and blah 
blah blah...you have this situation now.

BTW, there are now over 350,000 pre-orders for the new iMAC....an Apple 
record and most likely and INDUSTRY wide record as well....

later...


Michael Sheridan Williams
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