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Pipian
Jun 5, 2003, 01:09 AM
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vniow
Jun 5, 2003, 01:14 AM
What contract?
arn
Jun 5, 2003, 01:26 AM
I assume he's talking about the cross investment thing that happened at mw years ago... with MS pledging to develop office and apple would use IE as their browser.

Anyway... no - nothing was officially renewed... but the Microsoft Business unit (mac dev) was quoted as saying that they will continue to produce office because it makes a lot of money.

something like that... I can't find the exact article

arn
Nermal
Jun 5, 2003, 04:11 AM
I wonder if MS Office will still make lots of money once Apple gets the rest of their office apps out (Keynote etc). I guess some people would still like the "Microsoft Assurance" - they're using an official MS product which is going to be most compatible with Office for Windows.
MacsRgr8
Jun 5, 2003, 09:48 AM
Originally posted by arn
I assume he's talking about the cross investment thing that happened at mw years ago... with MS pledging to develop office and apple would use IE as their browser.

Anyway... no - nothing was officially renewed... but the Microsoft Business unit (mac dev) was quoted as saying that they will continue to produce office because it makes a lot of money.

something like that... I can't find the exact article

arn

I also seem to remember M$ "mentioning" to Apple that Office v X wasn't selling to their satisfaction, because OS X wasn't selling well enough.