Still, Solver is used in many business, engineering, and scientific analyzation tasks, and accordingly, users asked Microsoft's Mac BU to bring it back. As a result, Solver for Excel 2008 is ...

FrontLine developed the original Solver for Excel 2004, and developed the Excel 2008 version at the request of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (Mac BU).

The popular Solver for Excel add-on has been redeveloped for Excel 2008 by Frontline Systems and Microsoft.