undefined | Better HN

0 pointsbdcravens3y ago0 comments

Microsoft needed an OS competitor to have any viable antitrust defense.

0 comments

3 comments · 1 top-level

Y-bar3y ago· 2 in thread

... one which they also made a nice little profit of. $150M in the non-voting stock they bought in 1997 turned into $550M in 2003 when they sold most of it.

HeckFeck3y ago

Ouch. They must've wished that they kept that stock for a few more years.

simondotau3y ago

If Microsoft had held onto it, their investment in Apple would have been more profitable than anything else Microsoft did in the past 20 years.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse