Forget modern templates and automated formulas. Here is what working with data-crunching software was like back in the early days of personal computing.

Soon, Google wants to see AI doing the spreadsheet busywork, says Eric Birnbaum, director of product management for Google Sheets. Nearly five decades after the launch of VisiCalc, AI is reshaping one ...

With the Apple II launch, Apple transformed from a scrappy hobbyist outfit into a serious technology company with mainstream ambitions. By wrapping Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s engineering ...

The arrival of Claude for Small Business earlier this week marked an interesting moment–and a savvy strategic move–for Anthropic. Rather than saddling web browsers with more AI slop or trying to ...

January 2, 1979: Entrepreneurs Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston incorporate their company Software Arts to publish a program called VisiCalc. The first spreadsheet software for the Apple II, VisiCalc ...

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you are talking about an Excel spreadsheet, and if not, at least a program ...

It turns out necessity really can be the mother of invention. Just ask Dan Bricklin — who co-created VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet. Prior to VisiCalc, personal computers were basically ...

With all the new programs, applications and devices being released on an almost daily basis, the spreadsheet's story and its legacy as a powerhouse could be lost. The story of the electronic ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the spreadsheet launched in 1979, it was a bewildering piece of software. People had no idea what ...

Looking back at Apple's history, its hardware successes were driven by software and the use of innovative designs and creative user interfaces to run these software programs. The original Apple I and ...