Will Apple and Microsoft Renew their Vows?

krugdm writes "Remember about five years ago when Apple announced their deal with Microsoft where Apple agreed to bundle IE with new Macs and drop a patent lawsuit, and the guys from Redmond were to continue to develop Office for the Mac as well as purchase $150 million in Apple stock? Well, that deal expires this summer. describing the love-hate relationship the two companies have had in the time since 1997 and wonders whether the pact will be renewed."

Re:Something will happen, that's for sure....

[90XDoubleSide]

Actually, he said they have no taste, not they have no class (although I'm sure that's been said as well ;). Probably an error in Revenge of the Nerds, which is largely "based on actual events" aka "poorly researched." The whole quote goes:

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product. So I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success: I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products."
--Triumph of the Nerds PBS documentary interview (May 1996)

appleworks

[spike666]

AppleWorks is nice, it doesnt support powerpoint, but it does word and excel formats. no, its not open source, but its cheap (~US$80) and smaller than Office (ok thats not hard)

plus its fully cocoa so it can make the fonts look nice.

Re:Something will happen, that's for sure....

[plastik55]

You do know that there is already AppleWorks [apple.com] for Windows?