Techie Told 'Bill Gates' Excel Is Rubbish – and the Microsoft Boss Had it Fixed in 48 Hours

The Register ^ | Fri 9 Aug 2024 | Simon Sharwood

[alternatives?]

Lotus 123 was better IMHO.

[DoodleBob]

Spreadsheet Day is celebrated every year on 17th October

Lotus 1-2-3 rocked.

[DoodleBob]

I loved the backslash commands.

Excel=VHS, Lotus=Betamax.

[daniel1212]

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation Stop installing that software – you may have just died Brad showed up again the next day and found a package on his desk:

Is this written by a human? I often mess up by not proof reading, but it seems something went wrong here.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I have to admit a sneaking fondness for Quatro Pro.

[alternatives?]

The print macros were so much easier to write if you kept the exhibits in a sheet the same size. a1..k55~, a61..k115, etc. and then aa1..ak55~. etc.

[Leaning Right]

Everything that Bill Gates touches is rubbish. The only thing in question is how bad that rubbish is.

And as a side note, I was a public school teacher when Gates introduced his Gates Foundation public school initiative. It was anti-white racist garbage. I quietly refused to participate. And luckily I was not caught before I was able to retire.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I learned on Lotus 123. Excel copied it.

[PeterPrinciple]

Lotus 123 was better IMHO.

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I still use lotus 123 with windows 10 and 11

[nwrep]

Notice how almost all names in the spreadsheet are American. No strange foreign names.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My MS Excel for Mac v16.87, Microsoft 365 Subscription has quite a few awful bugs. None have caused data loss and they are mainly annoyances with correct screen display, formatting, and data entry, but they drive me crazy. Excel has always had perpetual bugs that they never fix.

[Texas Fossil]

Back then I was using Lotus. That was before the PC’s had enough RAM to support Software Bloat.

Later, for about 5 years I lived in Excel with ASAP Utilities. Very powerful stuff.

At the time I found an open source spread sheet that could use Regular Expressions. It was useful too.

Now, look at Bill Gates. He is still into Covid and World Health. (which he really knows nothing about)

[Rural_Michigan]

Microsoft is rubbish. Beats me why the world uses it.

[Texas Fossil]

Agree. Lotus was fast and friendly. Not bloated.

[Texas Fossil]

“Everything that Bill Gates touches is rubbish.”

Agree. Today we are dying from complexity.

[pepsi_junkie]

I learned on Lotus 123. Excel copied it. Microsoft copied everything. It copied Excel from Lotus, Word from Word Perfect, Windows from Macs, etc etc. Their deal with IBM (and then later most of the manufacturers) to put Windows on all the PCs gave them the ability to never have to innovate, just watch what others liked, then buy the company that made it or just steal it and put them out of business.

[DoodleBob]

[DoodleBob]

Fiklore… Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

[nickcarraway]

I thought the operating system was copied from something before Mac.