Microsoft Excel celebrates 30th birthday!
Microsoft Excel developers are celebrating the 30th birthday of Microsoft Excel.
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Microsoft Excel 1.00 was released at the end of September in 1985. Version 1 was only available for the Apple Macintosh.
At the time, Microsoft only offered their earlier Multiplan spreadsheet product for MS-DOS, and no spreadsheet at all for Windows 1.
Lotus 1-2-3 was the increasingly dominant spreadsheet on the IBM PC, having unseated the original VisiCalc spreadsheet.
The first version that came to the IBM PC was Excel 2.0 in 1987. Excel 2.0 was a Windows 2 application bundled a Windows 2 runtime.
Excel continued to be available for the Macintosh, and version 2.2 was also ported to OS/2 1.x.
Excel and Microsoft's other office products really took off when people began to embrace Microsoft Windows 3.0. In part, this was because other vendors were (for whatever reasons) slow to port their products to Microsoft Windows.
And that success continued on in to the Windows 9x era and to the present.
Now, if only someone would kill it :P
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/recalc-or- ... -the-odds/
Microsoft Excel 1.00 was released at the end of September in 1985. Version 1 was only available for the Apple Macintosh.
At the time, Microsoft only offered their earlier Multiplan spreadsheet product for MS-DOS, and no spreadsheet at all for Windows 1.
Lotus 1-2-3 was the increasingly dominant spreadsheet on the IBM PC, having unseated the original VisiCalc spreadsheet.
The first version that came to the IBM PC was Excel 2.0 in 1987. Excel 2.0 was a Windows 2 application bundled a Windows 2 runtime.
Excel continued to be available for the Macintosh, and version 2.2 was also ported to OS/2 1.x.
Excel and Microsoft's other office products really took off when people began to embrace Microsoft Windows 3.0. In part, this was because other vendors were (for whatever reasons) slow to port their products to Microsoft Windows.
And that success continued on in to the Windows 9x era and to the present.
Now, if only someone would kill it :P
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I don't use it for much. Typically, I'm using it to make budgets or invoices, or to make a chart(s) or table outlining something best shown in a visual/graphic form. It's easier than trying to do a layout in Word or Publisher for things like this:
Spreadsheets regardless of whether it was used with Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, etc. is really what contributed to the success of PCs in the office environment.
Has anyone tried the newly released Office/Excel 2016?
I tried the preview versions, haven't used the RTM.
It was pretty much like 2013 except a few visual improvements.
What you probably heard was that Word 5.5 for DOS was available on Microsoft's FTP.. (Part of a Y2K update that happened to include the entire EXE).
Of course, neither will run on 64-bit Windows without an emulator like DOSBox.
Huh, I didn't know that it wasn't available for MS-DOS. I don't know why I got that idea.