After years of acrimony, the two companies patched up their differences in 1997. To make it happen, Microsoft made a token investment in Apple, along with offering the then-new versions of Internet Explorer and the Office software suite, and promised to develop Office and IE Mac versions for five years.
That period of coexistence saw the development of newer Office editions, including a crucial version for Apple’s OS X. But as the five years ended, the two appeared to be on the outs again. Microsoft ended development of its Mac Web browser, saying that Apple’s Safari browser rendered IE redundant. Observers began to doubt anyone would ever see another Office version anytime soon.
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