It’s true. Microsoft Excel may not be one of the “most exciting” computer programs in history, but it is certainly one of the most enduring. Bill Gates’ spreadsheet, designed with the goal of providing accountants with a faster way to crunch numbers, recently celebrated its 40th birthday, demonstrating an incredible ability to keep up.
From a simple black-and-white table system to a colorful tool powered by artificial intelligence, Excel evolved year after year for four decades of our history, earning the title of the favorite spreadsheet of no less than 1.1 billion people. What was your origin and your most memorable moments? We tell you.
The origin of Excel
Released on September 30, 1985, Excel was developed in November 1984 by Bill Gates’ engineering team as a replacement for Microsoft’s older Multiplan spreadsheet program, making it even older than the Windows operating system. However, What many people don’t know is that the software It was released in 1985 as an exclusive for the Apple Macintosh, and did not come to Windows until a year later. That version was relatively simple, but it already had some of the characteristic functions of Excel: users could create complex tables, perform calculations, sort data and generate graphs.
At that time, the market did not offer anything similar to its public, with the exception of software ´1-2-3´ from Lotus Software, designed for use on IBM computers. At the time of Excel’s launch, as is easy to guess, that program literally fell into oblivion, soon replaced by Bill Gates’ spreadsheets, which even then were considered indispensable by insiders.
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Excel 95 and more
On the occasion of the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft also gave its users an updated version of Excel, which went down in history as a fun Easter egg: following very precise instructions, it was possible to play the video game in first person. Hall of Tortured Souls (Hall of Tortured Souls). Released in 1996, Excel 97 continued in the same footsteps, also featuring a hidden flight simulation game that could be accessed using a secret code.
And this was not the only news. The updated version of the spreadsheet brought with it clippythe virtual assistant clip added by Microsoft to help users with the functions of the software. Since 2000, Excel has been updated with new features every three years. A useful strategy to respond to the needs of users and companies, which has made it the most used spreadsheet in the world.
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