Welcome Mac Users - Solver for Excel 2008

Download Solver for Excel 2008 for Mac  (For Excel 2011 Click Here)

Solver for Microsoft Excel 2008 for 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 will appear automatically in this dialog -- you can just click Solve.

 

You may also be interested in:

• Try our Solver Tutorial to learn more about building Solver models and getting solutions.
  
• Premium Solver Platform for Mac offers far more power, speed and flexibility than the Standard Excel Solver while allowing all your existing models, even your VBA code, to be used as-is.
  
• If you are a developer of optimization or simulation applications, check our Solver Platform SDK.  It's available for Windows and Linux -- but contact us for news about availability of the SDK for Mac OSX.