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Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

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280 points 1659447091 | 2 comments | 20 Dec 25 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jjmarr ◴[20 Dec 25 20:27 UTC] No.46339337[source]▶
Does Microsoft gain useful information about product UX from this? Wondering if any Excel PMs watch this and see where micro-optimizations are made.
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lysace ◴[20 Dec 25 21:11 UTC] No.46339675[source]▶
Excel was completed at least a decade ago (probably two).

This is obviously 99% marketing. Microsoft/Waggener Edstrom tend to be really good at getting mainstream media to report on the marketing activities.

Example: For many Windows launches since Windows 3/95, there's been this media splash where Microsoft spends x million dollars on marketing and mainstream media then reports this, thereby getting (like) 100x millions worth of exposure.

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1. mmooss ◴[21 Dec 25 00:29 UTC] No.46341100[source]▶
> Excel was completed at least a decade ago (probably two).

What does that mean? Microsoft stopped developing new features? You think it was feature-complete?

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2. chungy ◴[21 Dec 25 15:52 UTC] No.46345653[source]▶
The entire Microsoft Office suite pretty much had every feature that users need by 1997. It's just been UI refreshes ever since.