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Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal

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Steve Jobs announces Microsoft's investment in Apple and partnership deals at Macworld Boston 1997, featuring a virtual appearance by Bill Gates.

Here we see Steve Jobs & the almost bankrupt at the time Apple Computer making a temporary deal with Bill Gates & Microsoft. The crowd was not too happy about it.

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What people say. Pointed to as a legendary moment in computing history when Apple was saved from bankruptcy by Microsoft.

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On “Microsoft to invest $150 million in Apple (1997)”

What? A link to this story and no one linked to the legendary video of Bill Gates appearing on the big screen at the Macworld Boston Keynote 1997, looming large over Steve Jobs and the crowd booing? Here, I will do that: link to this video (skip to 3:30 if you want to see how the investment is received, skip to 4:40 if you want to see Bill Gates)
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On “New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released”

I've seen this many times, so great. Imagine Cook taking random developer's questions at WWDC today. In that same year, the famous Gates at the big screen speech. The audience was booing. Can you imagine something even close to that today? link to this video
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On “Mike Elgan: Why Nokia is toast”

All of this 'Nokia is doomed because of their Microsoft partnership' talk reminds me of when Apple announced something similar back in 1997. Anyone remember this Steve Jobs talk from when Apple was on the financial ropes? link to this video If you think Nokia is doomed, you might want to re-watch that video. Things didn't turn out quite so bad for Apple.
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On “Nokia to get 'huge' payments from Microsoft ”

How much in the minority am I for thinking this is a good plan for Nokia? Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in exchange for including IE on the Mac (among other partnership goodies). If you don't recall that period of computer history (when Apple almost went bust), you may want to watch this Steve Jobs Macworld 1997 presentation discussing their joint venture: link to this video "Kneeling before Zod" didn't turn out too badly for Apple.
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On “Microsoft Excel’s 35th birthday”

Pour one out for Visicalc, the precursor to Excel/Lotus and the 'killer app' of 1979 for the Apple II! link Flash forward to 1997, and a key part of the deal for MS investing in Apple is...you guessed it, Excel on the mac. link to this video Funny to think about next time some engineer is telling you how this or that new cloud software will 'totally replace spreadsheets.' Spreadsheets powered the personal computing revolution - single handedly determined the winner of the OS wars (when people fled to first DOS and then windows after MSFT build Lotus into Excel). Like em or hate em, spreadsheets are here to stay.
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Lammyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Internet Explorer is evil (1996)”

I always thought tabs were an Opera invention, or maybe one of those IE shells like Maxthon or Neoplanet? IE5:mac was a fantastic browser though and was widely regarded as having the best CSS1 conformance of its time, as well as some cool features like an eBay auction tracker sidebar that seem quaint today but were very useful to me at the time: link On the flip side, the only time I can remember hearing an entire crowd boo Stebe Jovs was when he announced that IE 4.5 would ship as the default browser in Mac OS 8: link to this video
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On “Internet Explorer is evil (1996)”

"And as if forcing IE on all Windows users wasn't bad enough, Microsoft forced Apple to bundle IE for Mac as their default browser instead of Netscape. If Apple refused, Microsoft would discontinue MS-Office for Mac. Steve Jobs was loudly BOOED as he announced that IE would be the default browser." link to this video
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Lammyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"”

…that was unstable enough to earn a "prerelease" label on the startup screen. At the time I remember a lot of people did actually prefer to use the Classic OS version of IE 5.0 over the IE beta, at least until OmniWeb 4.0 came out around the same time as OS X 10.1 link Announcing the browser deal is the only time I heard an entire crowd boo Stebe link to this video It's also amusing how Steve was still obviously using Concurrence instead of a Mac to do these early iCEO-era presentations link…
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On “First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini”

> a constellation that needs to launch thousands of satellites. If I were the folks at Kuiper or any other would-be LEO RF communication constellation: * Starlink is proving the value prop to investors and consumers * This is an early stage this sector--there will be tech improvements * Improvements in satellites mean competitors can enter at vN+1 * SpaceX/Starlink has some anti-trust risk--they might throw a bone to a weak "competitor" a la Apple/Microsoft 1997 0 0. link to this video
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