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by Narishma 580 days ago
> Legend then goes that it's how Office application suit was born :) .

Legend indeed. All the main Office applications either started on the Mac and/or were bought from third-party developers.
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avmich 580 days ago
This is a legend :) some apps were running under DOS even before porting to Windows... But still a legend no worse than some others :) .
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Narishma 580 days ago
No Office application came from DOS to Windows. They either came from the Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or directly started as Windows apps (Access). Word for DOS was a completely different application with no relation to the Mac and Windows versions.
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avmich 580 days ago
I guess the Word for Windows is as related to Word for DOS as Atlas V is related to Atlas II. Thanks.
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