The history of MS Office is riveting.
This essay in IEEE Spectrum recounts the "Improbable Origins of PowerPoint". I did not know that Xerox PARC had such a direct influence of on MS Office (including MS Word).
Reading the essay, one gets a sense for how fluid the desktop computer landscape was between the advent of the Apple Lisa and Microsoft's bundling of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
This essay in IEEE Spectrum recounts the "Improbable Origins of PowerPoint". I did not know that Xerox PARC had such a direct influence of on MS Office (including MS Word).
Reading the essay, one gets a sense for how fluid the desktop computer landscape was between the advent of the Apple Lisa and Microsoft's bundling of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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