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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4880088" data-attributes="member: 360">Which is pretty much a roundabout way of saying Microsoft Office exists on the Mac.True, but they do for very different reasons.In Office's case, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint started out on the Mac. The rest of the Office suite -- Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, SharePoint Desinger (formerly FrontPage) and OneNote (and I may be forgetting something) -- is Windows-only. And it's likely Microsoft would be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they discontinued Office:Mac.In PhotoShop's case, again it originally was a Mac exlusive program. And the graphic designer market has always skewed very heavily to the Mac. Despite that, it wasn't until the most recent version that Adobe had a 'pure' OSX version (and the same was true of Office, and most large Mac apps).I've spent all my profesional life working on Microsoft platforms, so my opinions on the matter are likely highly skewed, but I just don't think any development tools for desktop or web app development even come close to what Microsoft has done with the post-.NET versions of Visual Studio. Add in that WotC is in Seattle (i.e. not very far from Microsoft's HQ), so Windows developers are likely much easier to find than Mac developers... and I pretty much think that doing a Mac version would cause both versions to be lower quality and cost more to develop, probably by a large enough margin to eat the extra revenue from Mac users who don't have a Windows dual-boot or VM set up on their Mac.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 4880088, member: 360"] Which is pretty much a roundabout way of saying Microsoft Office exists on the Mac. True, but they do for very different reasons. In Office's case, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint started out on the Mac. The rest of the Office suite -- Outlook, Access, Project, Visio, SharePoint Desinger (formerly FrontPage) and OneNote (and I may be forgetting something) -- is Windows-only. And it's likely Microsoft would be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they discontinued Office:Mac. In PhotoShop's case, again it originally was a Mac exlusive program. And the graphic designer market has always skewed very heavily to the Mac. Despite that, it wasn't until the most recent version that Adobe had a 'pure' OSX version (and the same was true of Office, and most large Mac apps). I've spent all my profesional life working on Microsoft platforms, so my opinions on the matter are likely highly skewed, but I just don't think any development tools for desktop or web app development even come close to what Microsoft has done with the post-.NET versions of Visual Studio. Add in that WotC is in Seattle (i.e. not very far from Microsoft's HQ), so Windows developers are likely much easier to find than Mac developers... and I pretty much think that doing a Mac version would cause both versions to be lower quality and cost more to develop, probably by a large enough margin to eat the extra revenue from Mac users who don't have a Windows dual-boot or VM set up on their Mac. [/QUOTE]

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