Well at least your MS fanboy colors are clearly up the mast. Point of correction though, MS didn't save Apple it was a face saving measure to resolve a long running law suit. Secondly as XP is well known as X Pretend - run your photocopiers Redmond - Apple seems to have been the free research dept for MS for years. Only failed when they didn't release anything ahead of Vista - oops wasn't supposed to mention that word... or ME I suppose.
The world is better for both of them being there so unless we want to sit under a tree with a coconut long may they both survive.
Oh, and Apple is also worth more than Google and MS combined.