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Microsoft Research Blog

| Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones

Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…

Awards | ACM

Andy Gordon, Dave Maltz, Meredith Ringel Morris and Tony Hoare (retired Microsoft) were named as one of the 95 2020 ACM Fellows for their contributions to computing. Andy is recognized for his contributions to programming languages: their principles, logic, usability,…

In this example, a LAMBDA function called REPLACECHARS repeatedly calls itself until every unwanted character has been removed.

In the news | TechRepublic

Excel might be the world’s most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel. Spreadsheets do more than just calculations; they help…

In the news | Techradar

LAMBDA beta allows you to create custom functions in Excel, Microsoft says Making the most out of Microsoft Excel could get a lot easier thanks to a new upgrade from the software giant. The process of learning how to effectively use a…

LAMBDA function concept graphic

In the news | Excel Blog

Today we are releasing to our Beta customers a new capability that will revolutionize how you build formulas in Excel. Excel formulas are the world’s most widely used programming language, yet one of the more basic principles in programming has…

Simon Peyton Jones writing with a fellow researcher at a desk
Microsoft Research Blog

| Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones

Spreadsheets are the world’s most widely used programming language, by several orders of magnitude. We asked ourselves whether it would be possible to apply programming language research ideas to make spreadsheets a better programming language? If we could, that would…