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No, Excel was the Mac-to-PC port. Word was already native on the Mac very early on, and that line ended with Word 5.1A, which to many people -- including me --
by lproven 2y ago
No, Excel was the Mac-to-PC port. Word was already native on the Mac very early on, and that line ended with Word 5.1A, which to many people -- including me -- is the classic Macintosh version. PowerPoint too, but that was acquired: it's not an MS in-house project.
Word for Windows 6 is the point where the Mac and PC codebases converged. And, FWIW, it did so by porting the Windows version to a MacOS Windows-like component library, and Mac users hated it.