[rplst8]

With a HUGE infusion of cash from Microsoft.

[detourdog]

Also known as a lawsuit settlement. it wasn’t that large, much less huge. The big commitment to was to providing Office.

[scyzoryk_xyz]

Which probably had something to do with that anti-trust battle Microsoft fought right around then, no?

[detourdog]

Definitely. They supported office on the Mac to prove that Windows wasn't a monopoly and paid Apple $150 million dollars in a cross-licensing deal give each company complete access to current IP. The thought was that Apple would use the windows IP to provide Redbox access to the new MacOS.

See Apple and Red, Yellow, and Blue boxes.