Lotus 1-2-3 Excel Vs Vs Google Docs & Spreadsheets?

After his release in Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 in the early 80 offered similar products measured by the quality and effectiveness. It seems we begin another turn of events with the availability of web hosted free applications like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho Office.

Things looked great for Lotus for a number of years due to its speed and similarity to the model of VisiCalc, including cell numbers and letters A1 and structured menu bar. It was virtually free of bugs and outperformed the input of the display works DOS / output slower. The data were classified within each rectangle defined data in the order of one or two columns in the rectangular area. It contained user friendly features such as pop-up menus driven and keyboard control key. The most notable feature of the Lotus user friendly "it was a shortcut menu of context-sensitive help by pressing F1.


Version 2.0 introduces macros and add-ins. This resulted in outside vendors to sell macro and add-ins packages which were to form the word processor to full financial spreadsheets dedicated. Version 2.0 contains macros with syntax and commands as well as a number of variable expressions which were similar in complexity to an advanced BASIC interpreter. In versions to follow Lotus 1-2-3 multiple worksheets also supported. Lotus also created a version of 1-2-3 for the HP 200LX, a palmtop released by Hewlett-Packard.

Excel was offered first for Mac in 1985 and then for Windows in 1987. In comparison to Lotus, the introduction of Excel has all the more crushing number drop-down menus and WYSIWYG formatting capabilities. Both Excel features turned out to be much easier to use. In 1988, Excel exceeded 1-2-3 and began to solidify its place as a leader in the development of PC software. Microsoft proved to be an ambitious competitor, by maintaining a valuable product and releasing new versions approximately every two years. Excel has also met with their versions of Mac. The current version of Windows is Excel 12 or Microsoft Office Excel 2007. The current version of Mac OS X is Microsoft Excel 2008.

Looking back, it seems that in 1982 when Microsoft offered its spreadsheet program titled Multiplan was popular with CP / M systems but MS-DOS systems favored Lotus 1-2-3. MS-DOS clearly prevailed as the predominant system, thus, Lotus 1-2-3 as the predominant spreadsheet program. In the late 80s, Microsoft Excel together an upstart spreadsheet for its Windows graphical interface. Lotus was focused on IBM OS / 2 Using Windows grew with Windows 3.0 but Lotus had already lost its leadership. Excel become the industry leader for spreadsheet software [http://www.thesoftwarespot.com]. IBM continues to sell 1-2-3 as part of Lotus SmartSuite office suite.

Trends move again with the availability of web hosted free applications like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho Office.