are you aware that word, excel, powerpoint, and yes, even silverlight are all available for the mac?

Although you are right, they are, they almost certainly weren't when they first came out.

Excel, the first GUI-based Word and Powerpoint were out for the Mac first in mid-to-late 1980's. Windows wasn't ready for them. Multiplan and the original Word were DOS apps.

I know it's irrelevant to this Post, just a historical note. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word

yep. it's hard to believe now, but microsoft was one of the early champions of the mac. i don't know if it's still true, but at one time, microsoft's macbu employed more mac programmers than apple itself.

Oh wow, thanks. I had no idea.