How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry

Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by smacktoward on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @04:28PM (#9932096)

That came much later: the Microsoft investment was announced in 1997, at Steve Jobs' first keynote after returning to Apple.

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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by cms07 on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @04:55PM (#9932251)

But regardless, I think Apple could have easily ended up just the same as the others without it.

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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by macintux on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:30PM (#9932432)

The "bailout" was a payoff for IP infringement and was small potatoes, something like $150 million.

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Re:How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry by rstupek on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:39PM (#9932492)

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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