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Historical office suite still available and supported. It includes a spreadsheet. Google Sheets – as part of Google Workspace suite, supporting both offline and online editing. IBM Lotus Symphony – freeware for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux. Kingsoft Office Spreadsheets 2012 – For MS Windows.
Spreadsheets have come a long way over the past few decades, and they are continuing to become more intuitive, flexible and powerful than ever. In just the past few years, spreadsheet software now offers powerful analytical tools to turn data into useful insights.
How did we get from what was once an arduous task of data storage and analysis to the spreadsheet software we know today? In this article, we’ll uncover the origins of spreadsheet software and trace its development through the introduction of Microsoft Excel and its lasting impact on data analysis.
By the late 1980s many companies had introduced spreadsheet products. Spreadsheet products and the spreadsheet software industry were maturing. Microsoft and Bill Gates had joined the fray with the innovative Excel spreadsheet. Lotus had acquired Software Arts and the rights to VisiCalc.
Spreadsheet software was first developed on mainframe computers in the 1960s. As the personal computer took off in the 1980s, desktop spreadsheet software took off.
The first spreadsheet software was VisiCalc, released in 1979, developed for the Apple II Computer by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. It’s considered to be the Apple II’s killer app. The program sold over 700,000 copies in six years (as many as 1 million copies in total).
eWEEK 30: Spreadsheet software from software pioneers such as VisiCalc, Lotus Development, Microsoft and Borland Software helped turn millions of corporate PC users into expert number crunchers.
It was the first spreadsheet program that revolutionized the way businesses managed and processed their financial data. By automating the tedious process of manual financial calculations, VisiCalc introduced a new era of computer-based productivity. How did VisiCalc change the concept of spreadsheets?
By Jason Karaian and Quartz. October 17, 2014. On this day in 1979, a computer program called VisiCalc first shipped for the Apple II platform, marking the birth of the spreadsheet, a...
So, A Brief Rundown of the Most Important Events in Spreadsheet History. CSV. CSV or Comma Separated Values, debuted in 1972 and formally got its name in 1983 and soon enough most big companies and enterprises were using it.