Am Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:01:08 +1300, schrieb Your Name:

You can get the Mac version as well.

This is good to know, so thank you for being an adult, which, as has been
proven for decades, is rare on any Apple-related newsgroup.

It's a ridiculous troll question to begin with since NO version of
Adobe Illustrator can open a PowerPoint document. :-\

Whoever it was that errantly *thought* that was the problem simply
completely misunderstood the problem set, which was explained so many times
that it doesn't need to be explained again.

In fact, nobody on the Windows newsgroup was confused about that part of
the problem set, since they're all adults there who can comprehend facts.
Can Adobe Illustrator read in a Microsoft PowerPoint & with fonts?
http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1103517

Before anyone jumps to more completely erroneous wacky assumptions, just
look at this short post for the key unanswered question:

Can the latest Mac Adobe Illustrator read in Windows Adobe Illustrator CS2 "ai-format" files?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.mac.apps/xiJFl-xbD1o