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kalleboo • today at 6:32 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

There was never an MS Office for DOS. The first version was for the Mac.

There was a Word for DOS, but Word for Windows was a port of Word for Mac. Excel started on the Mac (their DOS spreadsheet was called Multiplan). PowerPoint started out as a Mac product funded by Apple, which Microsoft acquired.

None of this can be described as "knocked out by Microsoft in a year".