← Back to context Comment by queenkjuul 11 hours ago MS office has never been cheap or included 6 comments queenkjuul Reply bananamogul 10 hours ago I guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99. ssl-3 9 hours ago One source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars.[1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC downrightmike 10 hours ago Forced +$30 per seat per month to get people loaded into their proprietary AI add-sub-mul-div 10 hours ago It's $8.30/month. It's cheaper than Netflix and Amazon Prime. snmx999 8 hours ago Over 50 years' time that's $4980. kube-system 6 hours ago 50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe
bananamogul 10 hours ago I guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99. ssl-3 9 hours ago One source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars.[1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC
ssl-3 9 hours ago One source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars.[1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC
downrightmike 10 hours ago Forced +$30 per seat per month to get people loaded into their proprietary AI
add-sub-mul-div 10 hours ago It's $8.30/month. It's cheaper than Netflix and Amazon Prime. snmx999 8 hours ago Over 50 years' time that's $4980. kube-system 6 hours ago 50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe
snmx999 8 hours ago Over 50 years' time that's $4980. kube-system 6 hours ago 50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe
kube-system 6 hours ago 50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe
I guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99.
One source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars.
[1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC
Forced +$30 per seat per month to get people loaded into their proprietary AI
It's $8.30/month. It's cheaper than Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Over 50 years' time that's $4980.
50 years ago you needed about 5 million bucks to get started with electronic spreadsheets on your IBM mainframe