> 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.
The Mac version of Excel had gone through at least five upgrades (the
previous version was Excel 5.0) when Office '98 for the Mac was released.
There had been a lull in upgrades in the mid to late nineties. Also, I'm
pretty sure Excel for the Mac existed before Excel for Windows.
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