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Shouldn't the credit go to VisiCalc instead of Excel? Excel rode on the popularity of VisiCalc and Lotus 123 for years. https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/visi
by agiacalone 4y ago
Shouldn't the credit go to VisiCalc instead of Excel?
Excel rode on the popularity of VisiCalc and Lotus 123 for years.
https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/visicalc-excel-and-the-rise-of-the-spreadsheet https://thehistoryofcomputing.net/visicalc-excel-and-the-ris...
- alexvoda 4y agoAnd while Lotus may have declined in part due to poor strategic decisions, Microsoft is known to have engaged in anti-competitive practices against WordPerfect in the same period.
- ThrowawayB7 4y agoKind of tangential but the article talks about VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Excel but somehow fails to mention Microsoft's Multiplan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan) which was released the year before Lotus 1-2-3 came out. Granted, it wasn't that popular or successful, but it shows that, contrary to what some seem to think, Microsoft was contending in the spreadsheet arena long, long before Excel was even a glimmer on the horizon.
- agiacalone 4y agoFrom the article: “They released an early spreadsheet tool called Multiple [sic] in 1982. But Lotus 1-2-3 was the first killer application for the PC.”