Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Can old Lotus files be converted to Excel? If so, how? — Kathy A: Wow. Lotus. That was the killer app of spreadsheet software back in the ’80s. IBM ended ...

Like Wayne Gretzky, Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows Release 4 is emerging as a leading candidate for the Comeback of the Year award. The impressive new version of the spreadsheet will reach stores later this ...

1983: Lotus begins selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. 1-2-3 was not the first spreadsheet application — it was preceded by VisiCalc. But 1-2-3 quickly became the most ...

When IBM bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995, it looked as though the venerable computing giant was just about to lock up the software industry and coast to unstoppable profits. Eighteen years later ...

Say your goodbyes, folks, Lotus 1-2-3 is being forced into retirement. For those of you old enough to remember Lotus 1-2-3, you might be shocked to learn that it was still on the market after all this ...

Quattro Pro is a powerful spreadsheet program that dates back to the 1980s, when it was a rival to market leader Lotus 1-2-3. It's currently part of Corel's WordPerfect Office, bundled with the ...

When Borland International Inc. cut the price of its Quattro Pro for Windows spreadsheet last fall to $49 from $495, it expected to pick up a few new users of the product, and so the company went to ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...