Product type Application Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Publishing PIM Database Vendor Microsoft Release date 1993 Minimum CPU 286 Minimum RAM 4MB User interface GUI Platform Windows Download count 358 (9 for release) Downloads Download name The Macintosh version supports both 68K and Power PC Macs. To perform a non-floppy install using floppy disk images, extract the content of each disk in to folders named Disk1, Disk2, Disk3, etc. Likely the reason for this was it let them keep the Macintosh version the same, as Microsoft Access was never ported to the Mac. There was never a 'Professional' Office 4.2. The main difference was the addition of Microsoft Access. Later 4.2 releases were rebadged as 'Microsoft Office 4.2 Standard' and sold along side 'Microsoft Office 4.3 Professional'.
(In the NT package, PowerPoint is still 16-bit) Office 4.2 was released for Windows 3.1, the Apple Macintosh, and i386/Alpha Windows NT. Office 4.2 includes Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, and PowerPoint 4.0.
All of the Office components now support OLE2 and have consistent user interfaces between platforms and applications. Microsoft Office 4.2 completes the transition started with Office 4.0 (they skipped 4.1).
