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This seems more plausible, because the initial comment only had that one.
> only had that one. Did it? The deal of the century was when SAIC bought Network Solutions for $4.7M in 1995. Five years later, they sold it to VeriSign for $21B.
He couldn't see a comment on his own post because it wasn't written yet. He could only see the $4.7M which you quoted.
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90's Apple (the beige phase, hah) users knew about FileMaker. At least in my own little circle. There was even a debate FileMake vs 4D (I was in 4D camp). Weird time to be alive. RAD tools and UML, everything visual basically, seemed to be THE FUTURE. Look at us now.
It's juvenile, but I can't help laughing at "Visual Basic-ally."
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90's Apple (the beige phase, hah) users knew about FileMaker. At least in my own little circle. There was even a debate FileMake vs 4D (I was in 4D camp). Weird time to be alive. RAD tools and UML, everything visual basically, seemed to be THE FUTURE. Look at us now.
It's a sad day when one regrets UML.
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And the Mac version was a very different game from what Halo on the Xbox turned into. You can find old trailers. Among other things I think it was 3rd person with a heavier emphasis on vehicles.
The Mac version was the same as all the others at release, Microsoft had Bungie dumb it down for the Xbox. The trailers you are watching are for what HALO was suppose to be, not what it ended up being.
As I remember the Mac version of the Xbox game didn't get released until years after the Xbox.
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It's a sad day when one regrets UML.
It was a good idea, until it got all enterprisey.
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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.
PowerPoint would never have become what it was without being on Windows and part of Office. So no, not really. Ignoring network effects makes this kind of silly. Keynote has also been better for a number of years now. Still not as popular just because Macs are less common than PCs with office.
Having worked on Persuasion 1.0 (Powerpoint's only real competitor for a while) being part of Office eventually killed Persuasion (when Adobe owned it later) because Powerpoint was "free".
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> 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.
Don't forget Xenix - first OS by Microsoft.
Not a deal of the century it would have just delayed the MS machine a little. Back then they either bought you out (Power Point) or they out Advertised or eventually caught up and passes you (Word Perfect).
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We are lacking context here. What do you do?
Good point. I'm a dev lead in an "enterprise" company (retail). I spend my time in Balsamiq Mockups and Visio. Meeting topics are usually complex enought that we spend the time discussing a single diagram/flow.
Unfortunately in my line of work (aerospace engineering), PowerPoint is endemic. All kinds of documents that should be actual reports are just PowerPoint slides.