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Re:Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video] by open-source-ux on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:25PM (#31390227)
The sad thing is how little it improved

Lotus tried to re-think spreadsheets with a product called Improv - it was full of good ideas but the product never took off. The product launched on NeXTSTEP in 1991 and then on Windows in 1993.

Here's a 1990 sales video (low-resolution) from Lotus explaining how it works, and how it differs from traditional spreadsheets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3M

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Re:Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video] by jmdeschamps on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:02AM (#31393572)
Have had the chance of working 18 month with NeXT computer - best (spirit) of machine ever... Improv was outstanding, but too much so... people couldn't easily adapt their spreadsheet work to the new tools (and on NeXT, in a time when green screen PCs here trying to adopt Windows 3.11 ;-) ) - seen quite a few applications never used to their potential benefits (and just wither away, replaced by less capable partial imitations)
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