Comments on: Flashback

By: sam

sam — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:00:00 +0000

“Bill Gates at that time wanted Excel onto as many computers as possible to get everyone hooked”….. and then Dumped 2007 on us….now we are stuck

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:43:00 +0000

Mike -

It's that other industry that calls its customers "users", right?

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:50:00 +0000

And lo, everyone was hooked. At which point the dealers became less friendly, it was harder to score some Excel from a friend, and the price rocketed. And the product continued to make you feel pretty good most of the time, but occasionally completely turn your brain to mush.

Remind you of any other “business” practice?

By: Raymond Allan

Raymond Allan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:22:00 +0000

The thing I always remember about the initial release is that it was not copy protected, Bill Gates at that time wanted Excel onto as many computers as possible to get everyone hooked.

By: Pragmatic Cynic

Pragmatic Cynic — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:49:00 +0000

I submit the following statement as understatement of the 1980s:

"And Microsoft has the muscle and determination to move markets."

By: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:32:00 +0000

Those were the day. Aw man… now I’m getting all weepy.

By: Haffy

Haffy — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:53:00 +0000

Those were the days. 640kb should be enough RAM for anyone, I believe someone once said.

And you try telling that to the young people of today - and they won't believe you.

By: Jason B

Jason B — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:46:00 +0000

Pretty interesting...

XL comes in with TWICE as many max rows as 1-2-3. Note, it still has the same number of max columns as of Office 2003.

Interesting that today is Halloween: "Circle 666 on reader service card."