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At the same time, the application world was fragmented. You bought WordPerfect for typing, Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and Harvard Graphics for presentations. Each had its own menu system, shortcut keys, and file formats. Saving a sales chart from your spreadsheet into your report meant a clumsy game of digital copy-paste that often failed.

The story took a turn. The world moved to smartphones, tablets, and web browsers. Did a desktop OS matter anymore? Microsoft adapted. windowsandoffice

In the early 1980s, the personal computer was a battlefield. Competing operating systems, arcane command lines, and incompatible software meant that just getting a letter typed or a budget calculated required the patience of a saint and the memory of an elephant. Two separate innovations were about to change everything, and their names were Windows and Office. At the same time, the application world was fragmented

Microsoft realized two things simultaneously. First, an operating system is useless without great software. Second, bundling that software together could solve the "Tower of Babel" problem. Saving a sales chart from your spreadsheet into