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Excel when Visicalc and Lotus 123 were king Word when WordPerfect was the standard
by PeterStuer 9y ago
Excel when Visicalc and Lotus 123 were king
Word when WordPerfect was the standard
- pjmlp 9y agoAll of them helped by compention own mistakes. Excel started on Mac and as ported to Windows afterwards. Visicalc was never ported to Windows, while Lotus never managed the transition in a good way. WordPerfect was the king of wordprocessors in text based OSes, took too long to accept the world had gone GUI and was quite arrogant to their customers. There is even a book about its downfall, " Almost Perfect". Sometimes Microsoft does not need to make too much effort, when their competition is good killing their own jewels.
- PeterStuer 9y agoTrue. It is fairly hard to unsettle an incumbent defacto 'standard' that doesn't make mistakes.