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...ready for a rumble in software. Lotus and Microsoft, the top independent U.S. producers of personal-computer programs, each announced plans to invade the other's turf. The battleground: the $400 million market for spreadsheets, or electronic business ledgers. Microsoft, which sells Excel software for Apple Computer's Macintosh models, plans to adapt its program for IBM- compatible computers. Lotus, which designed the best-selling 1-2-3 program for IBM machines, promises to bring out a version of that software for the Mac. Microsoft -- led by Bill Gates, its boyish-looking billionaire chairman -- may have an edge...
...deal will help Lotus (1986 sales: $282.8 million) strike back at its nemesis, Microsoft, which has zoomed past Lotus to become the industry's No. 1 company. Microsoft's rise was due in large part to an agreement with IBM to develop software for the manufacturer's personal-computer line. But now Lotus is getting an even more challenging IBM assignment: to adapt the top- selling Lotus 1-2-3 business-ledger software and other programs to much larger computers. Lotus would thus become the first company among its peers to graduate from personal computers to huge mainframes. The deal...
...software for the new computers will be built around Microsoft's Windows, a mouse-driven control system similar to the easy-to-use operating system that has brought such success to the Apple Macintosh. Though the basic PS/2 is already being shipped and the higher-priced models will go on sale later this year, the new software will not be available before next year, a delay that gives breathing space to Apple, IBM's biggest competitor. Apple's computers already offer many of the features, including an advanced graphics capability, that will not be available on the PS/2 until...
Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM compatibles and Microsoft's Excel for the cuter personal computer's around campus are spreadsheet programs that allow users to crunch and compare numerous columns and rows of numbers are suitably mangled, they can be turned into snazzy graphs. IBM--compatible users will need a printer that can produce graphics, Mac users will find that the Imagewriter suffices...
...Happy Hacker, of Course, sometimes finds a need for more complex or for prettier graphs than Excel and 1-2-3 produce. For the Macintosh, Microsoft's Chart produces excellent charts, plots and graphs. It is much simpler than Excel to use, but its data manipulation capabilities are extremely limited. Excel and Chart are compatible with each other, however, and graphs produced with Chart can be sent to Excel for analysis just as Excel plots can be spruced up in Chart...