[Ti] MS dropping Office for Mac

Mark O'Brien rmobrien at mac.com
Wed Jan 22 12:07:16 PST 2003


On 1/21/03 11:14 PM, "Michael Bigley" <wakinyan at fuse.net> wrote:

> I agree. My reference to Microsoft threats was in the mid-90s (as
> Shawn pointed out, there was never an official announcement, but they
> did publicly state they were "considering" dropping Mac versions).
> This was during a fairly heavy Exodus of developers, perhaps more
> importantly the number of peripherals that were supporting Macs was
> becoming miniscule.

That was right around the time I got my first Mac (what the heck was I
*thinking*!?!), a Performa 6200 with the crippled serial bus and defective
monitor.

Well, I know what I was thinking - it was my typical contrarian reaction to
all the hype of the just-released Windows 95, and hearing a radio interview
with Mac Evangelist Guy Kawasaki.
-- 
Mark O'Brien
AIM: rmarkob



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