25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
9:56 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Spreadsheets (was Microsoft flamage)
Possibly, but then you could probably say the same about Excel 1 vs. the
latest Excel. More recent software will always have extra "features"
compared to earlier versions - after all, you wouldn't pay out for new
software if it only contained everything you already had, would you?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Andrew Burton wrote:
Yes, quite right. I slipped up again and should know better as I bought
Microsoft Office and used it to install Excel (and only Excel) onto my
laptop.
Excel is easy to use and comes with all Windows
based computers.
Excel is part of Microsoft OFFICE, NOT part of Windows. Sadly I am not
old enough (or lucky enough) to have used any
alternatives - though I have heard of Lotus long before I joined this
list.
If you want, I'm sure that somebody could provide you copies of Lotus and
Visicalc that you could run on current machines.
While MOST of us see Excel as a bloated or just feature heavy Visiclone,
I guess that from YOUR perspective, Visicalc/Lotus would seem like
"stripped down" variants of Excel.