My Spreadsheet doesn't do that! MS Excel the story of the New Era
Channel: Know World's Fact
Date: 2022-08-27

Original Video Link : 
https://youtu.be/kOO31qFmi9A

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The first version of Microsoft Excel was released in September 1985, and it was only for Macintosh systems: Windows 1.0 was still two months away from release . Excel would take two years to launch its version 2.0 and land in the Windows graphical environments that the same company had been developing.

Another three years later, Excel 3.0 would arrive, which implemented toolbars, drawing tools or 3D graphics for the first time. And finally, in 1992, Excel 4.0 would arrive, the first version of this software that we could consider "popular" .

By then, 16-bit Windows environments were already triumphing in business, and Lotus' delay in landing on them (trusting its dominant position in the MS-DOS market) had irretrievably eroded its market share.


"My spreadsheet doesn't do that"

Microsoft knew that with Excel 4.0 it had to carry out a strong publicity campaign to consolidate it as the de facto standard for spreadsheets, and decided to launch this television commercial that is now 30 years old :