In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:05:22 +0000
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> __/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Monday 15 January 2007 19:45 \__
>
>>
>> I am using OO Calc to make up a monthly budget.
>>
>> I formatted three columns, Item, Monthly Cost, Yearly Cost.
>>
>> So it would have something like:
>>
>> Rent $615 $7380
>>
>> The third column is a formula, of the value of the cell to the left of it
>> times 12. I copied the formula down the column so I could add more items
>> and it left a bunch of zeros since I had not yet entered anything in those
>> rows.
>>
>> I remembered that Excel had a three part number format for values that are
>> positive, negative or zero, they are a separated by semi-colons, something
>> like:
>>
>> #;#;#
>>
>>
>> I wondered if OO Calc used the same format, and lo and behold it does! I
>> was able to format the cells with the number format:
>>
>> 0;0;#
>>
>> And it made the zeroes go away. Then, since I don't remember ever seeing
>> that in anything other than Excel, I thought, I wonder if they patented
>> that.
>
>
> All the Myth about Microsoft!
> ^^^^
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | * Microsoft was first with graphical user interface
> |
> | * Microsoft designed BASIC Language
> |
> | * Microsoft designed visual basic
> |
> | * Microsoft invented DOS
> |
> | * Microsoft designed the first spreadsheet - Excel
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ??
> |
> | * Microsoft designed the first word processor
> |
> | * First with Internet browser
> `----
>
> http://196.2.70.231:8080/ict_blog/open-ict-hacks/microsoft-myth
>
>
With all but the the fourth and the last one might be
able to slip in the word "popular" and make it work.
The last one, of course, refers to Internet Explorer,
which supplanted the then-popular Netscape, "cutting
off its air supply" (and rather successfully too, until
Netscape mutated into Mozilla/Firefox). It most certainly
wasn't the first, though.
As for DOS -- an interesting question, which gets a bit
tangled. I'd frankly have to research it, although Win3.1
beta had an interesting message.
(Of course, Unix is also very tangled by now, and Linux
just adds to the tangle, despite -- or perhaps because of
-- its popularity.)
In any event, for most of these Microsoft was neither
the first nor the best, just the most widely used and the
most profitable. That is (was?) the defining metric for
businesses, though many have a few questions as to whether
Microsoft did it 100% legitimately.
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