What utter tosh. MS Excel was developed for the Apple Mac (with Aldus PageMaker it was the killer app), and was later ported to Windows. Microsoft begged Lotus to port 1-2-3 to Windows, but 1-2-3/g was only ported after Windows had taken off... several years after Excel.
Microsoft got the big advantage with Windows apps because it ported the mature Mac-Word & Excel to Windows early
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What utter tosh. MS Excel was developed for the Apple Mac (with Aldus PageMaker it was the killer app), and was later ported to Windows. Microsoft begged Lotus to port 1-2-3 to Windows, but 1-2-3/g was only ported after Windows had taken off... several years after Excel. Microsoft got the big advantage with Windows apps because it ported the mature Mac-Word & Excel to Windows early