Apple sets record for company value at $621B (Becomes Most Valuable Company in History)

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19. Get your facts straight

The San Francisco Canyon Company was contracted by Apple in 1992 to port QuickTime over to the Windows OS. Intel contracted the same company to improve performance of Video for Windows exclusively on the Intel platform. The original lawsuit was Apple Computer v. San Francisco Canyon Company filed in December of 1994. Apple expanded their lawsuit to also include Intel and Microsoft in February 1995... since Canyon wasn't a big enough fish. Apple was hoping for a settlement, and an influx of cash as their cash reserves were nearing depletion.

If Jobs had so much clout, why would they need Microsoft to agree to develop office for 5 more years (because they couldn't afford to rewrite Claris), develop an Internet Browser (because Cyberdog was a buggy piece of shit, and Netscape did not want to take on the investment) that also supported a Java virtual machine (because Sun refused to port JVM to the MacOS).

Funny how you mentioned that Microsoft had a track record for stealing code. Apple OS X is a complete ripoff of BSD to the magnitude of tens of millions of lines of code. Apple ships with SAMBA, right, an SMB/CIFS port direct from the GPL world, to allow a Mac to talk to Windows file shares. When was the last time you saw a Windows or Unix box installed with Appletalk to gain access to an AFS?