Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Solution
Launched to compete head on with Lotus 123, Microsoft Excel™ soon became the dominant workhorse spreadsheet application, employed to generate financial scenarios for millions of business and home users world-wide.
Development
Excel 5 began the move towards a true development environment with the inclusion of a modular programming language, but the release of Excel 95 and the integration of Visual Basic for Applications (vba) saw the drive towards tighter integration with other Microsoft products and the Windows™ platform.
Vision
With constant improvements to the calculation engine and more sophisticated formulae available to the analyst and programmer, the only limitations to productivity are the vision of the requirement and the skill of the systems software developer.