An important aspect of this is that MS was under heavy scrutiny at that time for anti-competitive behavior, as the US v Microsoft case [0] was being prepared. If Apple had gone bust, MS would effectively have had a desktop OS monopoly, which wouldn't have looked good in this context.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....