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0 pointsbdcravens2y ago0 comments

Microsoft needed an OS competitor to have any viable antitrust defense.

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... one which they also made a nice little profit of. $150M in the non-voting stock they bought in 1997 turned into $550M in 2003 when they sold most of it.

HeckFeck2y ago

Ouch. They must've wished that they kept that stock for a few more years.

simondotau2y ago

If Microsoft had held onto it, their investment in Apple would have been more profitable than anything else Microsoft did in the past 20 years.

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