Before Microsoft's Excel came about, a Harvard MBA student and his former MIT classmate built the first spreadsheet software for the Apple II. It was 1979 and Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston wanted to ...

In the summer of 1978, a Harvard student named Dan Bricklin was cycling along a path in Martha's Vineyard, when he had a big idea. As an MBA student, he was being taught to do financial planning using ...

It was the first killer app, the spark for Apple’s early success and a trigger for the broader PC boom that vaulted Microsoft to its central position in business computing. And within a few years, it ...

VisiCalc was a ‘killer app’ years ahead of its time, and still says much about the way we understand computers Tidying my office the other day, as one does at this time of year, I came upon a shabby, ...

Individual user productivity is to Unified Communications as VisiCalc was to personal computing. VisiCalc, of course, was one the first software programs that enabled individuals to harness a PC to ...