Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
by goosedragons on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:39AM
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Halo was never going to be Mac exclusive. It was going to be Mac/Windows like Bungie's other recent stuff at the time like Myth II. It was introduced at Macworld but it was always intended to have a Windows version.
Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
by JKCalhoun on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:38PM
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Kid Pix, Sim City, Myst and Photoshop also come to mind.
Was there anything like the After Dark screensaver on Windows before it exploded on the Mac scene?
Re:Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
by OnlyMortal on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:24PM
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I remember the Halo demo in the keynote.
I’ve also had a product I worked on in a keynote by Jobs. A nervous time.
The DOS predecessor to Excel was Multiplan, which again predates the Mac, but Excel 1.0 was indeed a Mac-only product; Excel 2.0 was the first cross-platform version.
Another interesting example is Halo, which was originally planned as a Mac exclusive and introduced as such by none other than Steve Jobs during a Macworld keynote. Then Microsoft acquired Bungie while building up a stable of exclusive launch titles for the original Xbox, and it didn't see a Mac release until after the Windows version shipped a couple years later.