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Originally posted by motion
As I recall, it was a token purchase to go along with their commitment to port Office over to the Mac.
I think that was the "cover" story. The real buzz was that it was a payoff for Apple to drop their Quicktime lawsuit. Remember that one? MSFT were working on Windows Media Player, but when you looked under the hood the code was a cut'n'paste from Quicktime.
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