Just saw the pizza box commercial on TV.
If Apple now runs Microsoft Office, why would I want to run microsoft office on a non microsoft machine? Some people here are just overthinking the answer to that one.
It would seem the best system to the unwashed masses is to run microsoft on microsoft.
“If Apple now runs Microsoft Office, why would I want to run microsoft office on a non microsoft machine? Some people here are just overthinking the answer to that one.
It would seem the best system to the unwashed masses is to run microsoft on microsoft.”
If I recall correctly, Microsoft Excel made its _debut_ on the Macintosh platform many years ago. Only after it was successful on the Mac, did it get “ported” to Windows!
I believe even Microsoft Word was introduced first “on the Mac side”.
Your argument holds no water. The “core applications” of MS Office were indeed Mac applications FIRST, because when they were introduced, Windows didn’t yet exist. You couldn’t even RUN “Microsoft on Microsoft!”
And - in a similar vein - Microsoft Works was a Macintosh program years before MS came out with a Windows version. I remember buying version 1.x of MS Works for the Mac before there even WAS a “Windows” OS for the PC!
But - even more interesting than that - I _STILL USE_ my old copy of MS Works (version 3.0a, with a release date of January, 1993) TODAY, running under Classic emulation with Mac OS 10.3.9. It runs great, even faster than when it was new!
How many 15-year-old versions of applications on the PC/Windows side work better today then when they were new?
- John