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Originally Posted by undeaf
As if antitrust regulators ever actually did anything significant to microsoft?
Now, they could still be anticipating it if apple were to go under, but I think the reason they like to have apple around is because they fear linux much more. If apple disappeared, resistance to microsoft would centralize around linux, and this would be far more dangerous to them. Apple likes to stick to their safe, stable little upmarket niche, linux could move in on microsoft's marketshare from many directions. Microsoft could accept linux as the official alternative platform, they just don't want to.
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Plus, if Apple is still around, MS could always turn to the justice department and say, "hey look there is apple still around. See we have competition".
