{"id":43,"date":"2010-04-09T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:40:50","slug":"microsoft-excel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/spreadsheet-history\/microsoft-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Excel"},"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><strong>September 30, 1985<br \/>\n<\/strong>Microsoft announces the shipment to retail stores of Excel for the Macintosh, a powerful, full-featured microcomputer spreadsheet that combines business graphics with an on-sheet database. (from <a title=\"The History of Microsoft 1985\" href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Series\/History\/The-History-of-Microsoft-1985\">The History of Microsoft 1985<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Excel website\" href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-us\/excel\">Microsoft Excel website <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia Article: <a title=\"Microsoft Excel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Excel\">Microsoft Excel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 1996 Microsoft Press Release: More Than 30 Million Users<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia Article: <a title=\"Charles Simonyi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Simonyi\">Charles Simonyi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1981, at Metcalfe&#8217;s suggestion, he applied directly to Bill Gates for a job at Microsoft.\u00a0 At the firm, Simonyi oversaw the development of what became its most profitable products, Word and Excel, as well as Excel&#8217;s predecessor Multiplan. &#8220;<\/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>September 30, 1985 Microsoft announces the shipment to retail stores of Excel for the Macintosh, a powerful, full-featured microcomputer spreadsheet that combines business graphics with an on-sheet database. (from The History of Microsoft 1985)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/419"}],"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=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}