Stories about: VisiCalc

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Jive, SAP partner on 'social BI' 24 June, 2009 05:46

SAP and enterprise social-networking vendor Jive said Tuesday they have formed an agreement that will see SAP's BusinessObjects BI OnDemand software integrated with Jive's community and collaboration platform.
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Facebook: What's originality got to do with it? 26 June, 2008 11:00

Pity the innovators -- always hounded by the jealous hordes who clamor for a sliver of their success. And so it goes with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, though exactly who's the innovator in this scenario is a matter of some debate.
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Microsoft's future No. 4: 'Oort services' scenario 25 June, 2008 10:56

Long adept at staving off targeted threats to its core revenue streams, by 2013 Microsoft finally fell prey to the micromarket effect. Linux on increasingly popular UMPCs (ultramobile PCs), the rise of OpenOffice in developing nations, and the customized productivity app marketplace borne of Google's App Engine application-hosting service and its Salesforce and eBay acquisitions -- all chipped deeply enough into Microsoft's core customer base that the company finally had to loosen its grip on the computing industry's once-best legal license to print money, its Office and Windows software business.
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eBay blast from the past: New-in-box Apple II, never opened 25 February, 2008 11:44

Memories of your first computer can be priceless.
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Networking's greatest debates in the Data Center 29 October, 2007 07:34

A look at the greatest all time Data Center controversies in the history of the networking industry.
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After 25 years, PC struggles with new challenges 14 August, 2006 08:17

Twenty-five years ago this week, IBM began selling its version of a new business tool called the PC, ushering in a new era of personal computing.
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Ray Ozzie's illustrious IT career takes another turn 16 June, 2006 09:46

Within minutes of the official Microsoft announcement Thursday that Ray Ozzie has stepped into the role of chief software architect, his official biography at the company Web site was updated to reflect this latest development in what was already an illustrious IT career.
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Gates to scale back Microsoft role in 2008 16 June, 2006 08:21

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates plans to move away from overseeing his company's day-to-day operations in July 2008 to spend more time working with his foundation.
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Options drive Web-based Office alternatives 07 June, 2006 14:05

Google's test release Tuesday of an online spreadsheet application is the highest-profile challenge yet to Microsoft's dominant Office software franchise. But it's hardly the first.
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Why complexity is the next killer app 27 April, 2005 15:23

One question I'm asked fairly often is: what's the next killer app? The concept of the killer app has a powerful hold on our collective psychology. We want to believe that the entire market can be propelled forward by the next must-have technology that spawns a new generation of industry leaders and reshapes our lives. The spreadsheet, LANs, mobile phones, e-mail, the Web and so on. Absent the next killer app, the market stagnates.
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The long view on Longhorn 21 July, 2004 10:12

In its first preview at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference last year, Windows XP successor Longhorn was shown running a 20-year-old copy of Visicalc. Ancient DOS software won't be the lone occupant of the Longhorn compatibility box. Win32, the Web, and even WinForms -- the .Net era's first GUI framework -- are all legacy APIs from Longhorn's perspective. Their replacements, Microsoft says, will jointly deliver "the best of Windows and the best of the Web."