

Microsoft ceased development of IE for Mac in July 2003. There was a version of IE for Mac about 15 years ago. Microsoft AccessĮxactly the same as Visio: very, very unlikely to ever happen, and for exactly the same reason. But in the rarified world of the Microsoft Office team, such a product would be considered a dismal failure.

But in the rarified world of the Microsoft Office team, such a product would be considered a dismal failure.įor any Mac software company, a software product that brought in $50 million per year would be viewed as a fantastic success. I, and many others, believe the development costs to produce a Mac Visio that would faithfully render any existing Visio drawing (and have almost all the functionality of Visio for Windows) would never be recouped by Microsoft.įor any Mac software company, a software product that brought in $50 million per year would be viewed as a fantastic success. It’s unwise to say “never” with regard to future development efforts by a company as large as Microsoft, so I will predict this about Visio for Mac: it’s very, very unlikely to ever happen. Let me address a few of these in some detail. Most of these requests are for well-known Microsoft applications on Windows, and Mac users want them. When will (insert name of hot new game here ) be available for Mac? Will we ever see a Microsoft Project for Mac? Mac users aren’t at all shy about making their requests for applications known:
