On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 15:20 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Urmas wrote: > > Just a simple question, Do you know who originally designed Microsoft > > Office? > > > > Microsoft mostly. > > IIRC, they bought what became Excel and I believe Word too, from other > companies. > Microsoft did not develop the first office productivity packages. Several predated any MS offerings and were available before the IBM-PC was released. How MS precisely entered the office productivity market is less important than the fact there were other packages available at that time. Basic text parsing has been done for a long time.
Visi-Calc was the first spreadsheet and was available on the Apple II. Dedicated word processors (Wang) were available. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
