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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by bluedino on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:25AM (#11877020)
Didn't Excel descend from Multiplan which was originally for DOS?
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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by rmason on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:57PM (#11878417)
No they were completely separate products and teams. You could correctly say that Excel was a do-over of Multiplan.
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