Released in 1992, Office 3.0 had Word 4.0, Excel 4.0, and PowerPoint 3.0. Released in 1991, Office 1.5 included Excel 3.0, the first software written to take advantage of System 7. Literally: It included full box sets of each application! Office first shipped on floppy disks, and it later became the first major Mac software to be released on CD-ROM. The first version of Office included Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint 2.01, and Mail 1.37. It only made sense for Microsoft to bundle these three popular programs, and thus Microsoft Office was born in 1989 – again on the Mac before it came to Windows.īy the way, no version of Microsoft Office for Mac has ever included the Access database program, which remains a Windows exclusive, possibly as an incentive for Windows users not to switch to Macs. PowerPoint 1.0 came in 1987, three years ahead of the first Windows version. Microsoft Excel 1.0 was a Mac-first application and arrived in 1985. Microsoft Word 1.0 was released for Mac in 1984 and soon became the Mac’s dominant word processing app. Microsoft Office hasn’t been around forever, or even quite as long as the Macintosh, but it has been around for a long, long time.

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