The advantage Excel had in 1992 was it had already existed on the Mac for 7 years and had been highly successful as a Mac application. Conversely the early Wind

The advantage Excel had in 1992 was it had already existed on the Mac for 7 years and had been highly successful as a Mac application. Conversely the early Windows versions had, like Windows before 3.0, not really got any traction. This meant that when Windows really took off in the early 90s, Excel was already a quite mature GUI app.