The most important aspect was Microsoft settling code stealing court case with Apple. It never was Microsoft saved Apple story to begin with, even in 1998<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;1998&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;microsoft_paid_apple_150m&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;1998&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;microsoft_paid_apple_...</a>&quot;David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple&#x27;s CFO, in which Anderson wrote that &quot;the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple.&quot; The payment was $150 million.&quot;

An important aspect of this is that MS was under heavy scrutiny at that time for anti-competitive behavior, as the US v Microsoft case [0] was being prepared. If Apple had gone bust, MS would effectively have had a desktop OS monopoly, which wouldn&#x27;t have looked good in this context.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...</a>.

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