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Riamen
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Re: [News] Nadella to be new Microsoft CEO and Gates kicked off board?

said by dib22:

Remember don't tell a fanboi that apple computers have been running MS software since the apple II... they might freak out.

I don't think that would have gone unnoticed as Microsoft software is clearly branded.

But Microsoft does have a long history of writing software for Apple computers starting with MS BASIC for the Apple II. Some here might not know that Excel, PowerPoint and the GUI version of Word were originally Mac only programs.

Wily_One
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join:2002-11-24
San Jose, CA

Wily_One

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said by Riamen:

Microsoft does have a long history of writing software for Apple computers starting with MS BASIC for the Apple II.

Yes, it was called Applesoft BASIC. At that time Microsoft wrote programming language compilers and interpreters, for many platforms.
said by Riamen:

Some here might not know that Excel... were originally Mac only programs.

Excel was a essentially a copy of Lotus 1-2-3, which itself was a copy of Visicalc. Visicalc was the first spreadsheet program for microcomputers and it was written on the Apple II. We've come full circle.