2026-10-18
Microsoft Excel: How a 40-Year-Old Grid Turned One Billion Office Workers into Programmers—and Outlived Every SaaS Built to Kill It
Ranked #25 in '100 Products That Changed the World': Microsoft Excel (OVR 90.05: Durability 97, Scale 96, Impact 93, Business 92, Experience 85, Originality 80). VisiCalc invented the digital spreadsheet and Lotus 1-2-3 ruled DOS, but Excel made the green grid the mother tongue of global capitalism.
