I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 164. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Forty has the formulae of pre-eminence against digits.
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(Microsoft) Excel
Forty (Roman numerals XL) has the formulae (a feature of Excel) of pre-eminence (to excel) against digits (on macOS it’s main competitor is Numbers).
2: White metal with sunshine media was unplugged last October.
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(Microsoft) Silverlight
White metal (silver) with sunshine (light) media (what Silverlight was for) was unplugged last October (the plug-in’s support was ended in October 2021).
3: Retinue brought mail and more for a decade before the outlook changed.
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(Microsoft) Entourage
Retinue (an entourage) brought mail and more (it was Microsoft’s Mac-only mail client, and more) for a decade (2000-2010) before the outlook changed (it was replaced by Microsoft Outlook).
The common factor
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They are/were all Microsoft products for Mac.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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