How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M

Post by rdsnsca » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 2:39 AM UTC

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No, Microsoft bought Bungie while Halo was in development, you could never buy Halo for Mac.

And the Mac version was a very different game from what Halo on the Xbox turned into. You can find old trailers. Among other things I think it was 3rd person with a heavier emphasis on vehicles.

Post by joeyo » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 2:58 AM UTC

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I own and still play Halo for Mac frequently. Not sure what you mean.

I wasn't aware years later another company ported the original Halo.

Post by pmarreck » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 3:06 AM UTC

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As well as the first SimCity and a few other series that started in the Apple ecosystem. One of the bigger ironies is how Doom was developed on NeXTSTEP then went on to make the IBM PC cool among gamers. Also the first web server if I'm not mistaken. Thankfully, unlike the Amiga etc. the Mac didn't completely die and has been having a great resurgence in the past half-decade. Looking forward to this Monday and hoping…

Halo was being developed for Mac as well, until MS went and bought Bungie. They presented on stage at MacWorld in 1999.

Post by bitserf » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 3:39 AM UTC

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The deal of the century was when SAIC bought Network Solutions for $4.7M in 1995. Five years later, they sold it to VeriSign for $21B.

Softbank bought roughly 1/3 of Alibaba for $20 million. A stake worth ~$63 billion today That's the deal of the century (so far). Also worth noting, SAIC did not own 100% of Network Solutions when it was bought from the public market by Verisign. SAIC had sold off a massive stake in the company by that point. They basically liquidated 80% of their ownership in Network Solutions for about three billion dollars over se…

Post by raldi » Sat, Jun 11, 2016, 5:08 AM UTC

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4 years?? Holy shit, what a return.

That's what happens when get to buy a company with a fixed price government contract at a low-ish multiple of the contract value (fair enough price based on the contract), that you can get revised to let you charge end-users for the service months later in a field that's growing at a ridiculous rate.