It has always amused me that Excel started on Mac. It illustrates the basic Microsoft strategy - take something that works for someone else and fuck it up horribly. Anyone who knows the history of OOXML knows that M$ ain't doing anything that isn't deeply anticompetitive, deeply tone-deaf to the needs of the community, and deeply blind to the forces that are forcing them to change. | MS could create the next mobile enterprise OS,| Spoken like someone who has never owned a Windows phone. They were tolerable back when you could still spend the weekend hacking the registry to make them work, blowing $45 on shit from handango and restarting them fresh every morning. That ceased to be possible with the 6600. Put it this way - I was FTPing excel spreadsheets with embedded pictures shot on my phone from job sites via CDMA in 2002... and the fucking iPhone was a goddamn miracle, lack of copy-paste be damned. I'm excruciatingly sick of OS X. I am now running third party alternatives for everything - iCal, address book, Finder, Mail, everything - but the Windows machine I use to tweak my bike is XPSP3 and will stay that way forever.Microsoft originally marketed a spreadsheet program called Multiplan in 1982. Multiplan became very popular on CP/M systems, but on MS-DOS systems it lost popularity to Lotus 1-2-3. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Macintosh on 30 September 1985, and the first Windows version was 2.05 (to synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) in November 1987.
No. I've only tinkered around with my brother-in-law's, and it was pretty ho-hum. That's why I think MS should just spin off their own enterprise version of Android. There's no way that they are going to be able to catch up with Windows Mobile, or a any other de novo mobile OS. After years with a ThinkPad that I wiped Vista off of for XPSP3, I was very happy to get a Lenovo with Windows 7. 7 is like XPSP3 without the excruciatingly slow boot. My only mistake was not getting the SSD version. Windows 7 on a SSD laptop, and I think I'd be set for five more years at least.Spoken like someone who has never owned a Windows phone.
but the Windows machine I use to tweak my bike is XPSP3 and will stay that way forever.
Scary thing is that backintheday, Windows Mobile was the only thing you could reasonably run. Blackberry? Please. Palm? Forget it. Windows Mobile was actually a stripped-down version of Windows, and it did okay... but they made conscious decisions to have a "start" button and a desktop and all the stuff that made XP what XP was. Which didn't pan out very well on a 240x320 screen. So they had a monopoly on the market, and were annihilated by an OS that couldn't even handle Exchange properly until version 4. XPSP3 off an SSD is pretty snappy, even on an eeePC. Just sayin'.