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 ...

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 ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1983: Lotus Development Corporation begins selling its spreadsheet application for Microsoft DOS, called 1-2-3. 1-2-3 was not the first spreadsheet application — it ...

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 ...

On this day in economic and financial history ... Created by a friend of VisiCalc's developers, Lotus 1-2-3 quickly rocketed to the lead over the Apple spreadsheet. Because of its heavy use of memory, ...

WASHINGTON — Sending a cloud of legal uncertainty over the computer software industry, the Supreme Court yesterday took away copyright protection for a vital part of the Lotus 1-2-3 program for ...

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 ...