How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M

Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by extra88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:47PM (#11878321)

No, Microsoft bought Bungie while Halo was in development, you could never buy Halo for Mac.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by MBCook on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:19PM (#11878617)

And the Mac version was a very different game from what Halo on the Xbox turned into. You can find old trailers. Among other things I think it was 3rd person with a heavier emphasis on vehicles.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by rdsnsca on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:39PM (#11881732)

The Mac version was the same as all the others at release, Microsoft had Bungie dumb it down for the Xbox. The trailers you are watching are for what HALO was suppose to be, not what it ended up being.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by MBCook on Saturday June 11, 2016 @12:17PM (#11883993)

I know. I was referring to the original design for the game before MS bought Bungie.

As I remember the Mac version of the Xbox game didn't get released until years after the Xbox.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by vitd on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:31PM (#11880997)

I own and still play Halo for Mac frequently. Not sure what you mean.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by extra88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:21PM (#11881245)

I wasn't aware years later another company ported the original Halo.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by joeyo on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:58PM (#11881799)

It was released by Bungie/Microsoft for Mac at about the same time as they released the desktop PC version.

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