Welcome Mac Users - Solver for Excel 2008

Welcome Mac Users

Solver for Microsoft Excel 2008 on Macintosh is available here.  You can download it, free, right now.  It's our way of re-introducing ourselves to the Mac community.  This version of Solver is a Frontline Systems product and will be supported by us -- but we owe a big THANK YOU to Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit for (i) asking us to do this and (ii) supporting our efforts intensively with AppleScript help, QA testing, and localization.

Frontline Systems developed the original Solver for Excel on both Macintosh and Windows.  For many years, we've offered Solver upgrades for Windows users, that have gotten more and more powerful over time -- but we haven't been active on the Mac.  We're now applying more development resources to the Macintosh, motivated by the Mac's resurgence in the market and the move to Intel processors.  But the catalyst for this move has been Microsoft's Mac Excel team.

Solver for Mac Excel 2008 looks and behaves very much like Solver for Excel 2004.  Download it now.

If you open a workbook with a Solver model that you created in Excel 2004, or in most other versions of Excel, the model should appear automatically in this dialog -- you can just click Solve.

For more information...

• Try our Solver Tutorial to learn more about building Solver models and getting solutions.
  
• If you also use Excel for Windows, you may be interested in our Premium Solvers for Excel.  (In September, only the free standard Solver will be available for Mac Excel 2008.)
  
• If you are a developer of optimization or simulation applications, you may be interested in our Solver Platform SDK.  We offer this for Windows and Linux -- but if you'd like to see a version for Mac OSX, kindly contact us.