In 1992, Microsoft released Office 3.0 in separate Windows and Mac versions. Office 1.5 arrived in 1991, replacing Excel 3.0 with version 4.0, and version 1.6 was the first to include an email client for Windows PCs.
Also, Office for Mac included an email client long before Office for Windows. In short, the Mac was the first platform with a WYSIWYG version of Word, the first with a WYSIWYG spreadsheet, the first to get Excel, and the platform PowerPoint was developed for. Office arrived for Windows in Late 1990, and the first version didn’t even have an email client. Introduced in 1989, Office for Mac included Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. It was a suite of programs for Mac users. The first version of Microsoft Office wasn’t for Microsoft’s Windows operating system. PowerPoint didn’t come to Windows until May 22, 1990, the same day Windows 3.0 was launched.
Introduced in early 1987, Microsoft bought the company that created it in August 1987. PowerPoint was originally designed for Macs under the name Presenter. It wasn’t until 1987 that Excel came to Windows. The first version of Excel arrived in 1985 – and it arrived on the Mac. In 1984, MultiPlan was introduced with the Macintosh, where it quickly became the dominant spreadsheet program. But the following year, Lotus introduced 1-2-3 for DOS, which almost immediately became the top spreadsheet choice on the IBM platform. Microsoft’s first spreadsheet was MultiPlan, introduced in 1982 for practically every personal computing platform. Word didn’t get that on the PC side until 1989, when Microsoft introduced Word for Windows. Word was ported to the Mac and shipped in 1985 the first WYSIWYG version of Word included support for the Mac’s fonts. From the start, it was designed to be used with a mouse. Microsoft Word was initially developed for Xenix (Microsoft’s version of Unix) and MS-DOS and introduced in 1983. Microsoft Office has three core components: Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. From the headline, Microsoft Won’t Bring Office 2013 to Mac, but It Will Add SkyDrive Integration to Office 2011, you’d think that Microsoft was sticking it to Mac users. And from reading the article by Killian Bell, you’d never know that Mac users currently have a newer version of Office than Windows users – or that Microsoft has a long history of releasing new Office for Mac editions a year after every Windows version since 1997.
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