3 ms·
Excel was a copy of Lotus123. Once they killed it, by cheating, they took it a long way further though.
by mianos 10y ago
Excel was a copy of Lotus123. Once they killed it, by cheating, they took it a long way further though.
- smallnamespace 10y agoIs there any evidence of that? This page seems to think otherwise: http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done_t.html http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...
- wila 10y agoNot the OP, but I think you misunderstood. Excel was always a windows application that had the same functionality as lotus 123 that was a DOS application. So much so that the keyboard interface is still compatible. Actually what I remember is that Lotus killed itself by not having a windows version on time.
- smallnamespace 10y agoI'm just curious what OP meant by 'cheating', if not that.
- rbanffy 10y ago> Lotus killed itself by not having a windows version on time. They actually believed when Microsoft said OS/2 was the future. That probably killed some of their competitors.