The Rise of Microsoft Excel: Part 1
Excel is practically synonymous with the word "spreadsheet" today, and has attained near ubiquity in the workplace and home. But it wasn't always the reigning champion of the spreadsheet market.
In fact, Excel started out as a Macintosh exclusive, with Gates and Microsoft hoping that Excel could build a commanding position on the Macintosh, and then use that as a foothold to attack the dominant spreadsheet champion of the 1980s, Lotus 1-2-3. The Macintosh was in dire need of a killer app that could do for it, what VisiCalc had done for the Apple II years prior.
But could Excel be that app?
This is the story of how the world's most dominant spreadsheet was developed for the flailing Macintosh, a computer with a fraction of the market share of an MS-DOS PC, from which humble position Excel began its long climb to total dominance of the PC spreadsheet market.
#spreadsheet #excel #documentary
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In fact, Excel started out as a Macintosh exclusive, with Gates and Microsoft hoping that Excel could build a commanding position on the Macintosh, and then use that as a foothold to attack the dominant spreadsheet champion of the 1980s, Lotus 1-2-3. The Macintosh was in dire need of a killer app that could do for it, what VisiCalc had done for the Apple II years prior.
But could Excel be that app?
This is the story of how the world's most dominant spreadsheet was developed for the flailing Macintosh, a computer with a fraction of the market share of an MS-DOS PC, from which humble position Excel began its long climb to total dominance of the PC spreadsheet market.
#spreadsheet #excel #documentary
Видео The Rise of Microsoft Excel: Part 1 канала Another Boring Topic
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