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I’m sorry, did Microsoft really design Excel for the Mac first?

• seabass-labrax 3y ago
  It is indeed true. Windows had only just been released at this point, and was still limited by running MS-DOS in something of a pseudo-multitasking mode. The Macintosh platform, however, was slightly more mature, having already been publicly available for a little over a year. The majority of Microsoft's software was being written to target non-Microsoft platforms at this point, which started to change with their increasingly anti-competitive marketing techniques (such as the so-called 'AARD code'[1] in 1991). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
• mulmen 3y ago
  Yes. Excel for Mac was actually released before Windows. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel
• ThrowawayB7 3y ago
  As a side note to the sibling comments, Microsoft's spreadsheet product for DOS was named Multiplan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan .