Friday, April 15, 2005

Microsoft to hype up Longhorn at WinHEC: "The real beta will be very exciting, Allchin told CRN, although we think it's fair to comment that the hardware firms lost their sense of excitement quite a little while ago. One really exciting thing is that Longhorn will still be able to run Visicalc. For our younger readers, Visicalc was the first spreadsheet program, released in 1979 for the Apple II by industry vets Dan Bricklin and Don Frankston. Aye, it was a killer application. If it will run Visicalc, it will probably run other programs from the past, such as Microsoft's far from exciting DOS spreadsheet product, Multiplan."

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