> The measly $250 million investment didn’t “save Apple”. Yes it did, but not in the way you're thinking. Microsoft's investment into Apple and devotion to a

> The measly $250 million investment didn’t “save Apple”. Yes it did, but not in the way you're thinking. Microsoft's investment into Apple and devotion to a dev team to port Office to Mac OS was what re-instilled developer confidence in the platform. If you recall, Apple had $2 billion in cash and had just spent $500,000,000 on NeXT. The $250,000,000 investment helped ease the burden, but it was Microsoft standing behind the platform that really saved it. Same reason the "Year of the Linux Desktop" will be Year Never... developers don't develop for Linux Desktop because they have no faith in the platform one day becoming a huge market dominating offering that could share the spotlight with Windows and Mac OS. And for the pedantic people out there, when I say "developers don't develop for Linux Desktop", I - obviously - mean developers of consequence. There is no Microsoft Office for Linux Desktop. There is no Adobe Creative Cloud Suite for Linux Desktop. I can keep going. The major players - the ones that matter - don't waste their time with it.