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It's popular to make fun of Excel in some circles, but it really is a nearly perfect tool for innumerable real-world business tasks. It's intuitive enough that
by sverige 7y ago
It's popular to make fun of Excel in some circles, but it really is a nearly perfect tool for innumerable real-world business tasks. It's intuitive enough that newcomers can do some work with minimal instruction, and powerful enough that you can manage a half-billion dollar book of business with it.
More than any of the iterations of Windows, Excel is Microsoft's great contribution to software, and I say that as an old-school MS hater.
I think people too often forget that "useful" is the key ingredient in killer software.
- netsharc 7y agoAnother view is that spreadsheet software is the first user-friendly way to create computer programs almost anyone can do: you have input, algorithms you define, and output.
- erpellan 7y agoExcel was considerably inferior to Supercalc for many years, only winning because it was almost impossible to buy a pc without windows and office preinstalled for a chunk of the 90s