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Mostly you're right, but I object to the claim about Excel being better. While Word was better than anything else I had found to use at the time (Word Perfect
by CWuestefeld 16y ago
Mostly you're right, but I object to the claim about Excel being better.
While Word was better than anything else I had found to use at the time (Word Perfect was a buggy mess).
However, I claim that there were better spreadsheet products available. Certainly the one I used, Enable, was quite robust, and was more capable than Excel.
- bad_user 16y agoOffice 95 bundled Excel along with Word, Access and Powerpoint. When people make choices they also look at convenience and price ... having these products packaged and nicely integrated with each-other was genius.
- stcredzero 16y agoThere is a lesson here for language designers!
- coin 16y agoExcel for Windows was much better than Lotus 123 for Windows. Lotus basically took the DOS version of 123 and added some menus for it. It never did feel like a fist class GUI app.
- rbanffy 16y agoLotus took Microsoft's word seriously when Gates proclaimed OS/2 was the future and Windows was an interim step. Lotus invested a lot in 123 for OS/2 (123/G, IIRC) and, when the IBM/Microsoft divorce made evident they chose the wrong side, they had to port it to Windows all over again (with lots of different and conflicting APIs). Microsoft had no such problem.