Excel raises the spreadsheet stakes: Can Microsoft win over customers who rely on 1-2-3 or Quattro?

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Some industry observers say that Microsoft Corp's new $495 spreadsheet program, Excel 3.0 for Windows, is the best program on the market, but even though the new release gives Microsoft an advantage over the traditional market powers - Lotus Development Corp and Borland International - it is not certain that Microsoft can parlay its technology advances into market share. Both Lotus and Borland are testing new generation Windows 3.0-compatible spreadsheets that will put them back into competition soon. For now, however, Excel 3.0 will impress potential buyers. Excel has strong graphics-handling capabilities, automation features that approach artificial intelligence, solver functions, and object linking that enables sophisticated data sharing between applications.

Computer software industry, Software industry, Product introduction, Microsoft Corp., Equipment and supplies, MSFT, Spreadsheets, Spreadsheet software, column, Software Packages, Market Analysis, Competition, Microsoft Excel for Windows 3.0 (Spreadsheet software)

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Version 4.0 is a better Pagemaker

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Aldus Corp's $795 Pagemaker 4.0 for Windows, which runs under Microsoft's Windows 3.0 graphical user interface (GUI), is a greatly improved product that can meet the demands of a wide variety of users. Pagemaker 4.0 for Windows allows users to do very basic tasks like attach a word-processing document to an electronic pasteboard and then add headlines, surround them with art and trim off the edges for a professional look. It is also a useful program for more advanced users; Pagemaker 4.0 provides sophisticated features such as text rotation, automatic letter-spacing, the ability to user color files, table-of-contents and indexing generation, vertical justification, and the ability to retrieve files from spreadsheets.

Usage, Product information, Desktop publishing software, Desktop publishing, GUI, Graphical user interfaces, Evaluation, DTP Software, Aldus Corp., ALDC, Aldus PageMaker 4.0 (DTP software)

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