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Excel, the first GUI-based Word and Powerpoint were out for the Mac first in mid-to-late 1980's. Windows wasn't ready for them. Multiplan and the original Word were DOS apps.

I know it's irrelevant to this Post, just a historical note. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word



yep. it's hard to believe now, but microsoft was one of the early champions of the mac. i don't know if it's still true, but at one time, microsoft's macbu employed more mac programmers than apple itself.


Oh wow, thanks. I had no idea.




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