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I know its cool to blame every Microsoft success on the windows monopoly, but Excel won on its merits. Compare Excel 3 with Lotus 1-2-3 of the same era. One h
by slededit 10y ago
I know its cool to blame every Microsoft success on the windows monopoly, but Excel won on its merits. Compare Excel 3 with Lotus 1-2-3 of the same era. One had a GUI the other was stuck in 80x40 character land.
Excel 4 is about when the product really started to resemble its modern form. But even V1 on the Macintosh was a significant improvement over character based spreadsheets.
Simply blaming it on Windows ignores the very real innovations made by early Excel versions. Lotus lost simply because they were late to the GUI, and even then only did it half-heatedly.