[nostromo]

Reminds me of Microsoft's investment in Apple in 1997...

"There was some suggestion that Mr Gates may be anxious to keep Apple afloat to forestall a scenario where, following an Apple demise, a virtual monopoly hold by Microsoft on the software market would inevitably attract negative attention from fair competition regulators in Washington."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/apple-grabs-150m-...

[mamp]

Apple should invest something back into Microsoft to get them to make Office 2013 for the Mac.

[tallanvor]

Well, an update to Office 2011 for Mac is being released to add skydrive integration. There are also rumors of iOS and Android versions that will be released, but I guess we'll have to wait and see what actually happens.

[DeepDuh]

The irony here is that their rescue seems to have worked out a bit too well.

[Anechoic]

It wasn't a "rescue" it was a lawsuit settlement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company