PICS: Microsoft Excel turns 40! Here’s what it looked like back then
After four decades, Microsoft Excel is almost unrecognisable from the original.
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Clarence Ford speaks with Barbara Friedman about this and other stories trending online.
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Forty years ago, Bill Gates designed Excel to help accountants crunch numbers.
Since then, it has evolved into the extremely versatile app many of us use today.
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The original design is almost unrecognisable.
“It was so basic and so clunky. It has come a long way since then.”
- Barbara Friedman
Microsoft Excel 1.x
The version of Microsoft Excel was written for the Apple Macintosh computer and replaced Microsoft’s Mutiplan spreadsheet product.
Microsoft Excel 2.0
Excel 2.0 was the very first version of Excel for the PC.
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