Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM

Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by jacquesm on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:18AM (#9844531)

Yes, sheet was pretty good. (As was word!), but Excel really had the edge there, even when it first came out.

It's the one product by MS that stood out as being best-in-class straight from day one.

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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by pjc50 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @06:28AM (#9844559)

.. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell".

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Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM by agumonkey on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:13PM (#9846342)

Excel was so nice I wrote my documents in it. I wonder how much of Microsoft was built on its fame.

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