Nope. Excel was definetely Mac first. Excel was originally written for the 512K Apple Macintosh in 1984-1985. Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device. The Excel spreadsheet with a graphical user interface was easier for most people to use than the command line interface of PC-DOS spreadsheet products. Many people bought Apple Macintoshes so that they could use Bill Gates' Excel spreadsheet program. There is some controversy about whether a graphical version of Microsoft Excel was released in a DOS version. Microsoft documents show the launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0 on 10/31/87. - Brief History of Spreadsheets (http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html)
Word was originally DOS, but the first gui version was Mac Microsoft Office Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. It was originally written by Richard Brodie for IBM PCs running DOS in 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows (1989). It became part of the Microsoft Office suite. - Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_word) On 4/5/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Huh? The first versions of word and excel were for Dos. I don't recall mac > versions for a little while after that. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:03 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Official Windows booter for Mac from Apple > > > > Most of the early business apps that took over the market started out > > on the Mac. MS Excel for instance was Mac first and when it finally > > moved to Windows it kicked VisiCalc and Lotus1-2-3 in the balls. Word > > too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:202865 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
