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MS did Word and Excel for the Mac first, because their Windows didn't really work then.
The 1st release of WP on windows was poor. Word 2.0 was the first MS Windows version and was polished, for a version of Windows that actually worked properly, in 1991.
Much as I dislike MS, I think Excel and Word were the two best programs they produced. Lots of other stuff was copied or bought in: Basic, DOS, MS SQL, Visio being the famous ones.
Word was very good from 1991 to 2003. Then it started downhill after 2003, like Windows itself. Windows wasn't significant till 1991. NT came out in 1993 but was hardly used for Workstations till 1997 (NT 4.0 released in 1996). Windows 2000 was too rushed (NT 5.0) so it was XP (NT5.1) that finally saw many workstations abandon the horribly flawed Win9x/ME, which should never have existed and crippled the NT security model. The win95 Explorer Shell was even available on NT3.51 (upgrade from NT3.5 because MS deliberately added new "fake" win32 APIs to stop people installing Office 95 on Win3.x/WFWG3.11 with Win32s installed.
Basically many programs and companied "died" as DOS faded between 1991 and 1997.
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