[WinMac] Re: MS Office differences between platforms

Marc Bizer(mlbizer[at]mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:56:07 -0400

On 7/26/99 at 9:00 AM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> I agree, but MS has decided that they can better serve the
>Mac community by keeping development of the Mac products segregated
>from the Wintel versions, so as not to get into the problems they
>used to have when they DID use common code (and such).

It's my understanding that the 24-month development cycles of the
Windows and Mac are offset by one year to allow each
platform-specific team to use the already-existing code and improve
upon it. I believe that there's a lot of code common to both Office97
for Windows and Office98 for the Mac...

        --Marc

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