Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals Ireland's Diarmuid Early has won the Excel World Championship.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Can old Lotus files be converted to Excel? If so, how? — Kathy A: Wow. Lotus. That was the killer app of spreadsheet software back in the ’80s. IBM ended ...

Say your goodbyes, folks, Lotus 1-2-3 is being forced into retirement. For those of you old enough to remember Lotus 1-2-3, you might be shocked to learn that it was still on the market after all this ...

On this day in economic and financial history ... Created by a friend of VisiCalc's developers, Lotus 1-2-3 quickly rocketed to the lead over the Apple spreadsheet. Because of its heavy use of memory, ...

Thirty-one years ago, Massachusetts-based software developers Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs created a program — an electronic spreadsheet — that would change the world. A year later, on Jan. 26, 1983 ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

I once made money moonlighting as a VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 instructor before Steve Ballmer ever typed “=sum(Profits)” in an Excel 1.0 spreadsheet cell. And a friend and former colleague from my ...

IBM Lotus Symphony, which is a free suite of office applications for viewing documents, spreadsheets and presentations -- and is an alternative to Microsoft Office, passed the 100,000 downloads mark ...

Learning from the market's past to understand its present. On this day in economic and financial history ... Created by a friend of VisiCalc's developers, Lotus 1-2-3 quickly rocketed to the lead over ...