M$ and Apple are bundling Office together on some Mac models being sold in Europe and will shortly be doing the same in USA.

Office runs better on Mac OS due to dynamic RAM allocation and the ability to use programs like RAM tripler to use 16 Megs of RAM to work as 48 Megs without any problems. Those pesky "not enough resources to display completely" messages and others relating to memory problems are very rare in MacOS. Word's full HTML editor has been out for over a year on Word 6 for Mac, only a partial implementation of it was released as a plug in for Windows until Office 97 was available.

It seems some things are released for MacOS before Windows, mostly it's the other way around at MS. MacOS VFP 3.0 has a couple little goodies that were put into 5.0 on Windows, but is missing a couple, too.

What the future will be? Probably to avoid chargees of Restraint of Trade or Monopolistic practices M$ will continue to develop for the MacOS even if they don't make much money on it. The irony is that most of their stuff runs slightly better to much better on MacOS than on any of their own platforms.

With MacOS machines running at 4X to 8X faster than the fastest Pentium Pro it would make sense to run very large VFP apps on the new Macs rather than a Windows machine. Besides, you can run Windows 95 on a Mac anyway.