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by CephalopodMD 2703 days ago
Can I get a source on that? Looks like they haven't had a shared codebase in almost 20 years.
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I did say since the 90s and Word 6 was the last version they released until Word ‘98

http://lowendmac.com/2013/microsoft-word-for-mac-faq/

Word 6.0, launched in 1993, is widely considered to be the worst version of Word ever for the Mac, as it was based on the same codebase as Word 6.0 for Windows. That meant that it looked and worked more like Windows software than a Macintosh program. Mac users were so up in arms that Microsoft actually released a Word 5.1 downgrade to unhappy Word 6.0 owners.

It was five years before Microsoft unleashed another version of Word for the Mac,