> Me again
>
> > Ahh something I know about... YIPPIE!! MS Excel came out on the Macintosh
> > platform BEFORE any other platform... and it came out aleast sometime
>
> IIRC, MS bought Excel from another company. It's possible that it was
> already made for the Mac, but did they keep on updating it for the Mac?
> I certainly didn't see it till 98, and I used Macs quite a bit back in
> college. Also, Macs were very popular up till the 90s, making programs
> for it made sense back in the 80s, especially since teh reason that
> people chose IBM compatibles over Macs was the lack of busienss software.
Ahh I was wrong about the date of MSexcel for macintosh...
The first version of excel written was for the macintosh 512K back in
84-85 according to:http://dss.cba.uni.edu/dss/sshistory.html
>
> > Note:SGI doesn't have a monopoly and they charge far more then this for
> > thier upgrades (or atleast did back in the mid 90s)
>
> Yeah but they also had software tie-ins to Irix.
ahh yes.. another criminal company who is doing "tie-ins"
> > Correction: IE is available for MS95,NT,MacOS, solaris, and HP/UX
>
> This is new... I'd never heard of IE4 for the unix platforms. But
> remember, MS wanted to control the browser market, so it was in their
> best interest to port it to other platforms. This, however is just fine
> and legal.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/ie5all.htm
it came out as IE4 initialy...
>
> > ok.. now for my one remark... regarding "TIE in"...
> > at what point is something considered to be an illegal "tie in"...
>
> That is hard to figure out, but once you're a monopoly you better not be
> doing that...
So how is a company to decide? What defence does a company have if they
are being accused of illegal tactics for doing tie-ins with a given
product?
>
> Dianna
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