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This only makes sense for Apple.
Did any of you see that TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. There
is a scene where Balmer cuts away from a meeting with IBM to
say that this event the meeting between the small start up MS
and the giant IBM should be noted in all history/business books
and taught in schools for it was such a huge event that did
indeed make MS. Well I would put forth that the meeting
between MS and Jobs where Jobs in the end gets MS to put up
like 150 Million into Apple and promise for at least the next 5
years to supply Apple with MS Office should and will hold the
same signifigance in future history books. For that was the time
Apple took MS's fear of the coming DOJ investigation into it's
monopoly and MS's need to show she still had competition and
work a deal in which Apple would take MS's money and her
promise to continue support for the Mac and use it against MS.

OSX was the first step. Keynote and Safari continued the
trend...and now perhaps an full fledged Office like Suite of Apps
from Apple. After all many a pundent over these past years has
said in his or her column that Apple still has an unhealthy
reliance on MS's continued good will and they have all pointed
directly at MS Office as the clear example of said.

Pagan jim
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Interesting move, Apple...  sigmascape | 01/04/05
Completely severing its ties to Redmond  FilledOut | 01/04/05
Ah but as week as the anti trust trial settlements was  Laff | 01/05/05
OOo  rkadowns | 01/04/05
Apple can produce better apps than Microsoft  MacGeek2121 | 01/04/05
I agree  BitTwiddler | 01/05/05
RE: I agree  richdave | 01/05/05
Soooooo whay you are saying is  htotten | 01/05/05
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well there a suprise  toxicfreak | 01/04/05
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Using the K-suite?  escoles@... | 01/04/05
Appleworks  jaws_z | 01/04/05
Apple likely to offer Appleworks on Steroids  MacGeek2121 | 01/04/05
Shoddiness X2 or X3  aschvetahata | 01/04/05
clarification, please  MTMacPhee | 01/04/05
Um what are you talking about?  Laff | 01/05/05
Apple coming out with an iOffice -NO!  pjones | 01/04/05
MS won't be worried  Ken_z | 01/04/05
Apple coming out with an iOffice  ethika@... | 01/04/05
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Re; Blame Microsoft  Stebre | 01/04/05
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Revisionist  seosamh_z | 01/05/05
unneeded concerns  doh123 | 01/04/05
Don't worry  dave95 | 01/04/05
Entourage is still made for Mac besides....  MacGeek2121 | 01/04/05
What happened when MS dropped IE for Mac?  mlindl | 01/05/05
All of Office?  Tim Carpenter | 01/04/05
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mac people are mac people  jumby@... | 01/04/05
If it wasn't for Apple... there would be no MS Office  carot@... | 01/04/05
If it wasn't for Xerox PARC... there would be no Apple...  roberts777 | 01/04/05
Silly troll  tic swayback | 01/04/05
Yes but.......  htotten | 01/05/05
MS Office  rkadowns | 01/04/05
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A Post with a Clue  crescentdave | 01/04/05
Competition and Choice very good things I think!  Laff | 01/05/05
Can someone tell me who was first with an Office  Laff | 01/05/05
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Before that  htotten | 01/05/05
To the best of my knowledge,  Joel R | 01/05/05
What Planet are YOU ON?  htotten | 01/05/05
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Good points but...  richdave | 01/04/05
Okay...  PA-ITGuy | 01/06/05
Absurdity is catchy . . .  njic@... | 01/05/05
It satisfies the agenda  FilledOut | 01/04/05
RE: With a good Office product I could leave M$  molf2006 | 01/05/05
Or be a misinformed and clueless...  MacCanuck | 01/07/05
My opinion is based on developing and supporting hardware and software  rlinch | 01/04/05
Sea Change  Harry Bardal | 01/05/05
AppleWorks, then ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks again.  Joel R | 01/04/05
Lets hope for something NEW  Len Rooney | 01/05/05
Clarisworks/Apple works had some of that years ago  j.m.galvin | 01/05/05
Evolution  Harry Bardal | 01/05/05
I may be wrong, but  dave95 | 01/05/05
You're right  j.m.galvin | 01/05/05
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When IBM buys them  htotten | 01/05/05
Nope  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
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