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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by xorcist on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:23PM (#11879214)
Excel and Word for Windows was created to showcase Windows, but I doubt it was as early as 1987.

Multiplan was the DOS based spreadsheet software they sold (successfully) at the time.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by dogma1138 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:57AM (#11882727)
The dates were from MSFT and Wikipedia, I was 1 year old then so I would have to take your word for it.
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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by dreamcompiler on Saturday June 11, 2016 @06:33PM (#11885680)
Multiplan was also sold for the Mac in 1984 or 85. I still have a copy of it.
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