Lotus 1-2-3

Lotus 1-2-3 is a software Tableur of the company Lotus Software (now subsidiary of IBM). It was very popular and contributed largely to the success of personal computers PC in the world of the companies.

Lotus 1-2-3 left the January 26th 1983 and remained the principal spreadsheet for the Operating system MS-DOS during years. This spreadsheet could be programmed using macro S and was provided with a separate program dedicated to the creation of graphs and histograms. However, this graphics package could be launched at the same time only the spreadsheet. The emerging menus were accessible using one only key, which made the program fast to use. Lotus 1-2-3 benefitted from the graphics cards EGA, then VGA. The format of recording of Lotus 1-2-3 (“WKS” in the very first versions, “WK1” then) was a long time a standard in fact, not only for the worksheets, but even for rudimentary databases.

To the United States, Lotus led many legal actions for violation of Copyright, mainly against Borland (whose spreadsheet Quattro Pro took again the short cuts of keyboard of 1-2-3). Lotus did not seek to establish the existence of a plagiarism of its data-processing code, but called upon rights on the interface and general ergonomics ( look and feel ). The legitimacy of this request was very disputed, and more especially as 1-2-3 itself had very largely taken as a starting point the program Visicalc.

The advent of Microsoft Windows on the market of PC was accompanied by a growing success of the continuation Microsoft Office and the direct competitor of 1-2-3: Excel. Gradually, the continuation of Microsoft was essential vis-a-vis 1-2-3. Lotus Symphony, the successor of 1-2-3, did not succeed in being essential. 1-2-3 migrated on the Windows platform where it is integrated after Lotus SmartSuite.

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Site of Lotus

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