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by MBCook 1635 days ago
Spot on. Apple got desperately needed money from the Microsoft investment and more importantly it was a sign that the platform wasn’t “dead“. As Apple had been shrinking big developers had been abandoning the platform. If Microsoft were to stop making office for it it may have killed it.

That investment and commitment helped Apple keep going long enough to get out of the bind it was in.