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I have a M1 MacBook Air that I use for Docker, VSCode, etc. And it still runs very smoothly. Interestingly, the only times it slows down is when opening Microsoft Excel.

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same BUT my 16G ram is not enough and disk goes full.

Excel performance on Mac is a disaster, and I dont understand why.

Everytime I paste something it lags for 1-2 seconds… so infuriating!!

Don’t worry, it’s bad on Windows too

Whenever it's open, system animations are very janky.

Because Microsoft takes a least effort approach to porting for macOS. Not that they should do otherwise in my opinion. Office runs much better on Windows and has more functionality.

It was originally a Mac app before Microsoft bought it too, wasn’t it?

You got it all wrong. It was developed for Macs first because Microsoft is in the business of selling software and Windows wasn't such a big thing back then, in fact it barely existed as Windows, it was mostly MS-DOS still.

Microsoft definitely didn't buy something they created themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Early_history

Oh. I got the Mac part right but not who made it. It looks like I was conflating it with PowerPoint, which was Mac first and made by a 3rd party MS bought.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint

Ah yes that's right.

PowerPoint appearing first on Macs is not surprising because historically Macs have been focused on DTP applications, and were much more powerful for that (still true this day). It took quite a while for Windows to be comparatively capable, I think this is why Microsoft bought PowerPoint, to make up for it. Hilariously today PowerPoint is considered to be worse than Keynote, some things never change...

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