I misspoke myself, they do Macintosh stuff when it suits their purpose, which is most likely to control the Mac market in some way. They can do that because as a corporation Mac can be controlled, manipulated, threatened, etc. You can't do that to the Linux community, so it would still not serve their purpose to port it to Linux, so they won't. Last time I checked, everything that MS ports to the Mac tends to be way behind the Windows release schedule. For example, there is no Office 2000 for Macintosh, IE 5 for Mac came out way later than it did for windows. It seems that Mac releases are an afterthought to MS.
There is no chance in hell that MS would ever port Office to Linux or any other non Win OS EVER. Maybe when they break the company up the applications company will port it over, but a unified MS will live and die by Windows, and a huge part of that strategy is to make it impossible to run Office if you don't have a Win OS.
Win32 API's that were kept secret to kill a competitor? Try the network API's that MS witheld from Netscape when Win95 came out. That was phase one of killing Netscape. Now I'll grant you that Netscape shot themselves in the foot with 4.x, since it sucked, but they still should have had the API's. Microsoft just wanted to kill them on the road to browser dominance, and this was one of the tactics. Read Judge Jackson's legal papers, you'll find it there.
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I misspoke myself, they do Macintosh stuff when it suits their purpose, which is most likely to control the Mac market in some way. They can do that because as a corporation Mac can be controlled, manipulated, threatened, etc. You can't do that to the Linux community, so it would still not serve their purpose to port it to Linux, so they won't. Last time I checked, everything that MS ports to the Mac tends to be way behind the Windows release schedule. For example, there is no Office 2000 for Macintosh, IE 5 for Mac came out way later than it did for windows. It seems that Mac releases are an afterthought to MS.
There is no chance in hell that MS would ever port Office to Linux or any other non Win OS EVER. Maybe when they break the company up the applications company will port it over, but a unified MS will live and die by Windows, and a huge part of that strategy is to make it impossible to run Office if you don't have a Win OS.
Win32 API's that were kept secret to kill a competitor? Try the network API's that MS witheld from Netscape when Win95 came out. That was phase one of killing Netscape. Now I'll grant you that Netscape shot themselves in the foot with 4.x, since it sucked, but they still should have had the API's. Microsoft just wanted to kill them on the road to browser dominance, and this was one of the tactics. Read Judge Jackson's legal papers, you'll find it there.