[mrpippy]

Office 98 still used MSVC++ 4.0 hosted on x86 (the Cross-Development Edition that targeted 68k/PPC MacOS). They migrated to CodeWarrior for Office 2001.

Blog posts from MacBU employees that you will find interesting (also their archives around this time): http://www.schwieb.com/blog/2006/06/02/a-brief-history-of-ma... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rick_schaut/2006/06/03/the-... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rick_schaut/2004/02/26/mac-... http://www.schwieb.com/blog/2006/06/04/pseudo-code/