In data sabato 2 novembre 2013 17:38:27, Jay Lozier ha scritto: > On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 15:20 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > Urmas wrote: > > > Just a simple question, Do you know who originally designed Microsoft > > > Office? > > > > > > Microsoft mostly. > > > > IIRC, they bought what became Excel and I believe Word too, from other > > companies. > > Microsoft did not develop the first office productivity packages. > Several predated any MS offerings and were available before the IBM-PC > was released. How MS precisely entered the office productivity market is > less important than the fact there were other packages available at that > time. Basic text parsing has been done for a long time. > > Visi-Calc was the first spreadsheet and was available on the Apple II. > Dedicated word processors (Wang) were available.
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