Monday, February 16, 2009

The Best Software Product Ever

With so much happening on the internet and the lives of a human being getting changed over the past decade so rapidly with technology coming in to play in everyone's life so much, we are surrounded everywhere by some electronic gadget or the other. And each gadget is either run by some Bios commands or more so by some software.
The world is full of software, where ever there are devices or even appliances there is some software runnning in it. Right from a Personal Computer, Mobile phone, an Enterprise server, a Database, a Television, or even a DTH package they all run some software or the other.

So lets look at all the softwares that are available and rate the best one till date. I know calling one software the king of all does invite some argumernt or contradiction with every other person having his/her own opinion. I would modestly put this as my personal opinion
The basic factor I see among to rate the best software would be -
  • The number of lives it touches directly every day
  • The reliability of the software
  • The profitability it brings to every persons livelihood (this I would rate directly or indirectly)
  • the ease of use as well its functionality

Keeping all the above factors, I started with the Rating right from all the softwares ranging from Enterprise Software Products to Desktop Applications, from Paid Software to Freeware / Shareware. Though I would say every software has its own purpose and also the comparision seemed to too vague and daunting but still keeping all the factors into picture a few could only stand up till the last.
And finally one software reached the top of the table because of its usability, its versatility, its tenacity and also its scalability and thats is undoubtedly - Microsoft Excel.

This is a software which is used by varied users that other softwares can only envy of. Right from investment bankers to corporate honchos to scientists to business men to housefwives all use this software. It covers the broadest area of coverage be it in Sceince and technology or the investment markets or simple calculations or showing trends and charts or displaying performance reports or dashboards etc etc and the list goes on and on.

Also it is very simple to use and very reliable indeed. A lot of organizations and inviduals have benefited from this software. I personally think this is one software which touches the lives of most individuals (the others being Notepad, MS Word, PDF).

The other day I saw a TV programme on Animal Planet on the most extreme Felines - and in spite of heavy weights like Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Puma, Lynx etc, the common household Cat was rated the most extreme. Something similar here, in spite of looking at bigger Enterprise softwares, the dektop application MS Excel won the race for me.

MS Excel has really stoood up the test of the time and dominated the market having no competitor in its space and proved it is the best software product ever. I hope you agree to that.

3 comments:

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  2. Hi Herbu,
    The topic is quite interesting.
    The blog is just ok,but frankly speaking its not your usual standard(previous blogs were superb 10/10),
    I mean you could have done a lot better by doing jotting done some more analysis and then proving your point rather than directly saying that Excel is the best.I will rate this only 4/10.
    waiting for more:)

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  3. I know this was crappy, I started it off well but then it turned out to be filler kind of just to write soemthing every month. now that I was in hibernation, will start writing soon this year. Keep watching. :)

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