"Bill [Gates] loves the Mac"

The title quote comes from Kevin Browne, general manager of
the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft in this href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsI
D=1398">interesting MacWorld UK article/interview

Office 2001, for instance, was engineered entirely for
the Mac. Microsoft no longer works on a shared "core-code"
strategy. Whats written for the Mac applications is written
for the Mac alone. However, the engineers proximity to
their Windows counterparts does allow for near bulletproof
cross-platform compatibility.