17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Phil Fraering writes: Given that games usually program close to the hardware, and are therefore the _most_ difficult things to port from one environment to another, it really makes one wonder why Excel isn't out for (for example) Linux or BSD today. Microsoft has lots to lose from making software available to systems that "comptete" with MS-DOG and Windoze. It's clearly in their best interests to not make their software run under Unix and/or X11 (although WABI has some interesting implications in that regard). On the other hand, that would seem to imply that it's in a lot of other people's interest to port their software -- every little bit of leverage against Microsoft helps.