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OK same kind of idea: Netscape vs Internet Explorer (MS just gave the browser away for free) For a good 6 months Netscape was out "selling" IE but eventually IE won the war for a good 15 years.
microsoft publisher - licensed from the authors, rebranded, then given away killing the entire windows market for the original product on windows or any other platform
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Halo was being developed for Mac as well, until MS went and bought Bungie. They presented on stage at MacWorld in 1999.
sighs Oh, Marathon.
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Looks like you are correct Excel 1.0 and Word 1.0 were released for the Mac in 1985, Word 1.0 was released for MS-DOS 18 months earlier. Excel was never released for the MSDOS and both it and Word came to Windows in 1987.
Excel and Word for Windows was created to showcase Windows, but I doubt it was as early as 1987. Multiplan was the DOS based spreadsheet software they sold (successfully) at the time.
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Halo was being developed for Mac as well, until MS went and bought Bungie. They presented on stage at MacWorld in 1999.
It was released on Mac. http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo/
After the Bungie sale, Xbox was the primary platform they designed for. Before that it had been planned as a Mac/PC title.
While obviously PowerPoint is ubiquitous and influential, it's interesting - I don't think I've ever used PowerPoint in professional life. The last time I needed to prepare a slide presentation was in high school.
We are lacking context here. What do you do?
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Where's the irony? Microsoft started (ignore the DOS part) as a company that developed applications for Macintosh specifically word and excel which started on the Mac and only got Windows support in later versions with Word 4/Word for Windows 1.0 and Excel 2.0.
> Microsoft started (ignore the DOS part) as a company that developed applications for Macintosh I think you're saying we should ignore the first 10 years of the company. The company started in 1975 creating a BASIC interpreter for the Altair; the first version of Excel for Macintosh was released in 1985.