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If I remember right, Excel was released first for Mac

• agumonkey 11y ago
  Right, Apple was already a market when Microsoft started to grow. That's maybe how Bill Gates got to have a peek at the GUI effort and PARC source. They have a special relationship.
  • scholia 11y ago
    Apple was big, rich and famous, because of the Apple II. So little Microsoft became the Mac's biggest backer and biggest supplier of software, and Bill Gates was featured at the Mac launch. Excel and the graphical version of Word were written for the Mac, and PowerPoint -- a Mac program -- was bought in to make the first Microsoft Office suite, which was launched on the Mac. Gates also offered to help Apple license Mac OS widely to make it an industry standard. Apple didn't see the point of selling $100 software when it could sell $2,500-$3,500 computers. That world started to change after 1990, when Windows 3 began to take off.