Spreadsheet applications helped to kick off the personal computer boom in the 1980s and are effective tools in most businesses today. Sometimes a spreadsheet gets complicated, with many formulas and ...

Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new version of Excel that will enable users to write and run Python code directly in the spreadsheet editor’s interface. Stefan Kinnestrand, a general manager for ...

Microsoft Excel remains a tool of choice for big data mavens, due to the numerous ways it can plug into third-party data sources and massage them with ease. Python, too, has become a go-to technology ...

Grid software maker Platform Computing releases a module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program to use the power of a grid computing system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...