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Dec 27, 2010 · When Excel kicked off, Microsoft, which today fills a corporate campus of dozens of buildings in Redmond, Washington, could still fit in one building (making it possible for Gates to drop by all ...
- A Year in Excel
- Talk About Ubiquity
- Changing The Course of History
- Imagining A World Without Excel
- The History of Excel
- Spotting The Next Excel
Just like many other “relationships”, I was introduced to Excel a few years prior, but the fire was lit in 2015. I jokingly say it was the “year of the spreadsheet” because I spent the greater part of that year living in one. I worked as a business analyst crunching numbers for the Fortune 500. I vividly remember being told on my first day to notic...
Whether you like Excel or not, it’s hard to dispute that it has been a major underpinning to modern-day business. Just in terms of sheer market penetration, Microsoft believes that 1 in 5 adults use Excel. And despite recent advances by competitors like Google sheets, it is estimated that there may still be 1.2B Microsoft Office licenses floating a...
Albeit a bit dramatic, Microsoft Excel fundamentally changed the way people run their lives and their businesses. Personally, I do everything in spreadsheets. I track my life (ranging from how often I exercise to how often I floss), I create lists, I project my finances, and much more. The beauty of spreadsheets are in the fundamentals, which is ex...
People (like me) don’t just use Excel. They love it. And as I was researching for this article, I stumbled on a simple question: “If Excel disappeared, what would you use?” For some of the simpler solutions it provides, there are certainly parallels. But for its more complicated applications, I’m not sure whether there really is a replacement. I tr...
34 Years of Magic
As much as I love the product (have I told you that I love Excel?), I’ve also grown to love the historyof MS Excel. If we go back to the invention of Excel (34 years ago), so much has changed in the way people communicate and work. And yet, Excel at its fundamentals has not. Before you get your panties in a knot, it’s important to note that Microsoft did not invent the concept of the spreadsheet. If not Microsoft, then who invented the spreadsheet? We haveDan Bricklin and Bob Frankston to tha...
Recalc or Die
Microsoft decided to invest in the development of a new product under the code name: Odyssey. With the success of Microsoft now, it’s hard to imagine the company as an underdog or that Project Odyssey was one that defied the odds, but Excel 1.0 creators were just a small team of four: Mike Koss (team lead), Jabe Blumenthal (program manager), Doug Klunder (lead developer), and Jon DeVaan (copy protection). Other members of the early team include Steve Hazlerig, Ed Ringness, Charles Simonyi, Jo...
In an age where "software is eating the world", we must ask ourselves: “What can we learn from this story of Excel?” If I can convey anything to you in this piece, it’s not my love for Excel nor how much money Microsoft is making, but how spreadsheets fundamentally changed access to information. It took something that only a few people could proces...
Sep 25, 2015 · Just ask Doug Klunder, the lead developer for Microsoft Excel 1.0, who quit his job after Bill Gates and other Microsoft leaders decided to shift the original Excel project from MS-DOS to the ...
Sep 17, 2012 · Microsoft releasing Excel for Windows in 1987, however, helped the company achieve a leading position in the PC software world by steadily overtaking Lotus 1-2-3 on many a desktop. Below is a ...
History Uncut The History Channel: 1987 - A young Gates, donned with oversized glasses that refuse to stay in place, answers questions from the press about his dazzling new software Microsoft ...
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Jun 16, 2006 · Then I sat down to write the Excel Basic spec, a huge document that grew to hundreds of pages. I think it was 500 pages by the time it was done. (“Waterfall,” you snicker; yeah yeah shut up.) In those days we used to have these things called BillG reviews. Basically every major important feature got reviewed by Bill Gates.
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Nov 28, 2011 · WYSIWYG came from Parc, not from Apple or Microsoft as Bill pointed out many times." Mac might have broke Word and Excel to the world, but that once-dead-now-revived Novell antitrust case against Microsoft now confirms, it was the special relationship between Windows and the Office apps that proved successfully symbiotic.
