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Mac and Microsoft

RANDOM APPLE MEMORY

Charlotte Henry looks at how the Microsoft suite became a core part of the Mac

Microsoft Word was released for MS-DOS in 1983, and the more user-friendly Macintosh version was introduced just two years later.

O bviously, it’s easy to think of Apple and Microsoft as ‘enemies’ – they are certainly competitors in many fields and there have been some high-profile clashes. Look beyond the cliché though and the two companies have periodically come together to form mutually beneficial partnerships.

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