MS Excel, is the OS X version different? Mac vs PC

Hello Apple Discussions Community,
I have been trying to convert some windows users to mac, their major complaint is that at their work places they use MS apps exclusively. They told me that MS Excel for Mac OS X is...
A. Not cross platform compatible, ie you cant open Windows Excel files in the OS X version. Is this true?
B. The Windows version has more features than the OS X version, my pals claim that the windows version has less features because MS doesn't want to promote the use of the app on another platform, thus promoting another platform. Is this true?
C. Has anyone else out there found the same roadblock in attempting to cross platforms in such a purely administrative environment? Ie. no photo-video-music manipulation whatsoever...
Thanks to all who respond,
P.S. I'll let you all know who they responded to YOUR answers.

stuckless wrote:
Hello Apple Discussions Community,
I have been trying to convert some windows users to mac, their major complaint is that at their work places they use MS apps exclusively. They told me that MS Excel for Mac OS X is...
A. Not cross platform compatible, ie you cant open Windows Excel files in the OS X version. Is this true?
No, it is not.
B. The Windows version has more features than the OS X version, my pals claim that the windows version has less features because MS doesn't want to promote the use of the app on another platform, thus promoting another platform. Is this true?
No, it is not. Office 2004 was the last version of Office to be (virtually) 100% compatible. That was the last Mac version to support VBA. The problem was that Microsoft took some shortcuts early on in their Mac software development that started getting more and more problematic. In Office 2008, they dropped support for VBA so they could modernize their Mac software. That was a controversial decision, to say the least. But sometimes software development can't be rushed and having infinite money and resources just doesn't do you any good. I think it will be the right move in the long run, but it may cause problems now - especially with Excel.
C. Has anyone else out there found the same roadblock in attempting to cross platforms in such a purely administrative environment? Ie. no photo-video-music manipulation whatsoever...
Yes and no. Cross platform documents have never been 100% perfect. With Office 2008, things are worse than they have been in a while. We have XML document support, but lost VBA. Personally, I would rather have the XMl documents, but that is just me. I have confidence the situation will improve over time. Keep in mind that the Microsoft Business Unit is the world's 2nd largest Macintosh software development company - after Apple.

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