MS Office actually began on the Macintosh long before there was such a thing as Windows. In fact, MS Office for Mac was Microsoft's main cash cow along with DOS at the beginning of the company. Funny how history plays out.

Meanwhile, I urge everybody who has a choice to move over to .ODT format, away from .DOC. Unlike .DOC, .ODT is open-standard, which means they can never alter it on you and declare that you need the latest version to open your own damn documents. I loves me some Microsoft, but I have had it with them jerking around the Office doc formats.