We have some catching up to do on the web, and so that's where a huge amount of our effort has gone, but our goal is that people can use the platform of their choice, and they shouldn't feel like they lost anything by making that choice.'

We treat them all equally: they're all super-critical, they're all tier-one versions of Excel. 'Different people have different desires some people really want to work just in the web and in the browser and web apps some folks want to be in rich client on Mac or on Windows.

Increasingly, you can work on them in your browser - and there are few, if any, desktop features that aren't on the table to bring to the web version of Excel.Īlthough the Mac and web versions of Excel may not yet have all the same features as Excel on Windows, they're no less important, Brian Jones, head of product for Excel, told TechRepublic. Pivot tables, the Office script recorder, extremely large worksheets - you used to need the Windows version of Excel to cope with spreadsheet files that took advantage of Excel's most powerful features.