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.
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.
