Re: Office 2010

AV3 wrote:
It may interest you to know that MS products for Mac are not official
ports. When Microsoft decided to shut down its "for-Mac" division, some
of its employees bought it out and now run it as a private enterprise.
Microsoft has been indulgent, and it has been sufficiently profitable to
keep producing updates, but there is no pretense of it producing MS
products.

It's "for-Mac" division is the Mac Business Unit, which is within the
"Microsoft's Specialized Devices and Applications Group inside the
Entertainment and Devices Division" (though I think they're moving or
moved directly into the Office division) it is part of Microsoft, not
some third party, and they are not shut down. The MacBU was formed
specifically because of an agreement between Microsoft and Apple.

They are not ports, they are native for the Mac (hence functionality is
sometimes either lacking or better compared to Windows versions) but all
of them are Microsoft products, hence having that Microsoft logo and
"Copyright Microsoft" all over in it.

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