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AHunter3 01-22-2008 02:45 PM
I am no Microsoft fanboy but Excel is by far the best product MS has ever put out, and I am quite fond of it.

dandj 01-22-2008 04:53 PM
Excel is one of the most stable programs I have ever used on my Mac, in fact I can't ever remember a crash, and I've been using it on all my Macs since the Mac Plus in the mid eighties to my 24 inch shiny new iMac.

Interesting that Excel was originally released as a Mac program in 1985, 2 years before the Windows version.

AHunter3 01-23-2008 01:51 AM
I don't think there were very many Windows versions of anything at all in 1985.

And yes. I had Excel 2.2 on my SE, upgrading eventually to (I think) Excel 4.0 which had workbooks that could contain multiple spreadsheets. My PowerMac had Excel 5.0, reportedly the low point in Mac Excel development but still nowhere near as horrid as its Word compatriot, Word 6. Eventual upgrade to Excel 97, I think it was (?) under OS 9, and Excel X for OSX. I don't always stay totally current but the nice thing is that I have not generally needed to.

Las_Vegas 01-23-2008 02:06 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by AHunter3 (Post 444693)
I don't think there were very many Windows versions of anything at all in 1985.
I suspect Solitaire and Mine Field were working by then…


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