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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by amyjess on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:40PM (#15743542)
Excel started out as a Mac program. It became popular because it was that good, not because it ran on the creator's platform.
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Re:Microsoft Has It All—Almost (1985) by scholia on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:27PM (#15744576)
Word also started out as a Mac program. It just happened to have the same name as an old DOS program.

Microsoft's original DOS spreadsheet was called Multiplan.

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