# IRows

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IRows
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/IRows.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRows
> Source revision: 1353553823
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**iRows** was a [web](/source/World_Wide_Web)-based [spreadsheet](/source/Spreadsheet) in [beta](/source/Beta_test) with a [GUI](/source/GUI) similar to the traditional desktop-based spreadsheet applications, such as [Microsoft Excel](/source/Microsoft_Excel) and [OpenOffice.org](/source/OpenOffice.org). It was shut down on December 31, 2006, after it was announced that its two founders had been hired by [Google](/source/Google).[1]

iRows used [Ajax](/source/Ajax_(programming)) and [XML](/source/XML). It was described as an example of a [Web 2.0](/source/Web_2.0) system.

iRows supported conventional spreadsheet features functions, value formatting and charts and added web oriented spreadsheet capabilities like collaboration (multiple people using a shared spreadsheet, sending a spreadsheet as a link instead of an attachment and ability to publish spreadsheets on other web pages (e.g. blogs).

## See also

- [List of acquisitions by Google](/source/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google)

- [List of online spreadsheets](/source/List_of_online_spreadsheets)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Michael Arrington](/source/Michael_Arrington) (November 15, 2006). ["Google Absorbing iRows"](https://techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/google-absorbing-irows/). *[TechCrunch](/source/TechCrunch)*. Retrieved 2007-04-03.

## Further reading

- Fay, Joe (November 17, 2006). ["Google draws in iRows"](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/17/google_irows/). *The Register*. Retrieved June 4, 2012.

- O'Reilly, Dennis (August 23, 2006). [Web Spreadsheets Nearly Ready for Prime Time](https://www.pcworld.com/article/126809/web_spreadsheets_nearly_ready_for_prime_time.html)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*], [PC World](/source/PC_World_(magazine)) Magazine.

This Web-software-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

- [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Web-software-stub)
- [t](/source/Template_talk%3AWeb-software-stub)
- [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Web-software-stub)

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [IRows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRows) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRows?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.