{"id":27,"date":"2010-04-04T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/multiplan\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T23:25:11","slug":"multiplan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-history\/multiplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wikipedia: <a title=\"Multiplan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiplan\" target=\"_blank\">Multiplan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key Events in Microsoft History (Word document)<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Multiplan released 1984<\/p>\n<p>Richard Brodie&#8217;s Website: Microsoft: The Early Days<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Charles&#8217;s mission was to compete against the surprisingly successful <em>VisiCalc<\/em>, the first spreadsheet program. He was to develop Microsoft&#8217;s spreadsheet, a project code-named &#8220;EP&#8221; (for &#8220;Electronic Paper&#8221;) and later marketed as Microsoft Multiplan. That task he entrusted to Doug Klunder, programmer <em>extraordinaire<\/em>, who would go on to lead the development of the unmatched <em>Excel<\/em> after Multiplan&#8217;s lukewarm market reception in the face of<em> Lotus 1-2-3<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia: Multiplan Key Events in Microsoft History (Word document) Microsoft Multiplan released 1984 Richard Brodie&#8217;s Website: Microsoft: The Early Days &#8220;But Charles&#8217;s mission was to compete against the surprisingly successful VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/587"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}