Star Microsoft Considered Dumping Mac Office to Hurt Apple
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Mar 2007 22:33 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Mac OS X Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause 'a great deal of harm' to Apple has emerged. An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in the Mac Office development camp. At that time Microsoft's senior management were considering dumping Mac support. The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time.
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El-Al
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2006-04-17

shykid is right! During this period (96/97 and even later) things were very, very shaky for Apple financially. Rumours of Apples demise were rife for the reasons already stated above.

Jobs' return sure turned things around for Apple but things didn't change overnight.

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Mellin Member since:
2005-07-06

Still people say that Apple is dying or will die if they don't do this or that

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systyrant Member since:
2007-01-18

Apple will go under and die... if they don't give me a free laptop, desktop, server, iPod, iPhone, free upgrades for life, and e-mail this to at least 100 people. ;)

Seriously I think Apple will be around for a long time to come. Not everybody likes Apple or Microsoft or Linux or [insert something here]. At least it's nice to have a choice, even if you can't choose the one you really want. ;)

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