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smacktoward
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How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the P...
That came much later: the Microsoft investment was announced in 1997, at Steve Jobs' first keynote after returning to Apple.
cms07
on July 22, 2015
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But regardless, I think Apple could have easily ended up just the same as the others without it.
macintux
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The "bailout" was a payoff for IP infringement and was small potatoes, something like $150 million.
rstupek
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Assuming you mean the Mac IP and if so I believe Microsoft had a cross licensing deal in place which would cover it. It never got to litigation though.
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