Trust me, M$ did not bail out Apple because of the UK. There were already other choices such as OS/2, Sun's OS, Linux and Unix. Small, yes, but yet still competitors. I think that one of the major reasons why M$ kept Apple in business was so they could get some great ideas from them, partially. The other part is that Apple, if successful, would provide microsoft with another stream of revenue.
As great as a place the UK is (I should know, I lived there for a while), they are not large enough to make Microsoft bail out a company.
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Originally Posted by Tommo But in this case you don't, certainly in the UK. The courts take action to prevent companies gaining a monopoly, the is not a lot you can do once they have. That was the original reason Microsoft bailed out Mac years ago so as to keep another OS/computer player in the market place. |