Microsoft Excel, the true successor to the throne of COBOL. Version 1.0 was released on the last day of September 1985, four decades ago.… Since the original US English version of Windows 1.0 ...

We know we have readers in Japan who almost certainly have an eye for an old computer, can any of you help them in this quest? We’ve touched on BeOS in the past on its own BeBox platform and the ...

Just ask 73 year-old Tatsuo Horiuchi. He'll tell ya. But why Excel? "Other specialized graphic software is expensive, and Excel came pre-installed in PCs," Horiuchi told Japanese website PC Online ...

These days, there are even new apps alongside old faves like Word and Excel, and right now ... work from a laptop and not a chunky desktop computer, but you can still take advantage of Microsoft ...

For many, Microsoft Excel is the epitome of corporate drudgery. Its dreaded #VALUE! error has driven an incalculable number of users to despair. Yet among financial ...

Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend ... that would make personal computers a household staple, with a suite of software that ...