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Out of the box support for QuickTime and AppleScript.

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Word Basic had existed in Word 2.0 for Windows, though was missed out of Word 5.x for Mac

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Microsoft went quiet on Mac software development, until the Macintosh Business Unit was formed in 1997. There appeared to have been some pressure for their software to be at feature parity between the two operating systems. Again the Mac version was a direct port from the Windows 3.1 copy. Although strictly focusing on Word 6.0, I would reasonably expect parts of it resonated with Excel 5.0 and PowerPoint 4.0 development.Īround the same time, Microsoft Project 4.0 was released for both Windows 3.1 and System 7.

Rick Schaut, a software design engineer who began working on Word 5.0 for the Macintosh and later subsequent versions, had written an insightful piece on his blog back in 2004. The previous version of Word, version 5.1, in comparison was a favourite for many and would run on the original 68k Macs. The applications were a direct port from Office 4.2 designed for Windows 3.1, and for Mac users this was particularly noticeable. Consistent feedback was that Office 4.2 was considered mediocre, mostly due to the user experience and sluggish performance. At home I used Office 4.2 on my Windows 95 PC, so to use the same version on the Mac felt fine to me, but regular users felt differently.

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Variations of the retail packaging were available, where all the manuals and a 30~ floppy disk set were included instead. Internet Explorer 2.1 and Bookshelf 1996-97 were also included in copies marketed towards small business.ĭuring the 1990s I hadn’t used Office on a Mac extensively, stuck with ClarisWorks at school. Version 4.2.1 consisted of Word 6.0.1, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, and a choice of using either Microsoft Mail 3.x or StarNine Mail as the e-mail client. One obvious observation compared to other copies of Office, is that the retail box itself was particularly thin and light, similar to Microsoft Home multimedia titles at the time. This particular copy distributed on CD originally retailed for $199 AUD due to the academic use license. Five years later would see this version, 4.2, that would generate plenty of resentment amongst Mac users.ĭataflow were a major software distributor for the Australian & New Zealand markets. Then in 1989 Microsoft Office 1.0 (originally known as The Microsoft Office) was first distributed, comprising of Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37 that would run on Apple’s System 6. During the late 1980s Microsoft did well selling individual copies of Word and Excel on the platform, comparative to their PC-based releases. Interestingly Office’s roots stem from the Macintosh. Within the ‘Office family’ is Publisher, Visio and Project, where the former two didn’t come across to Mac, while the latter was short-lived in the early 1990s. The e-mail client changed relatively frequently, whilst Windows users have been using Outlook since Office 97.

The exception being with Office 2004 for the inclusion of Virtual PC.

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Microsoft Access never made it, hence no Professional edition available. Microsoft Office for the Macintosh always felt kind of second-rate compared to its Windows counterpart.