[ryan42]

“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers." Both of these are false. There are plenty of freeware programs that allow a user to draw vector or pixel shapes. Excel/Office has not come preinstalled on any computers I've seen in many years.

[thesmok]

But that's his experience. This man somehow got his computer with Excel preinstalled and decided to use it for drawing instead of buying a proper drawing application. As a result, he's now world-famous artist, not just yet another illustrator on Deviantart.

[unsignedint]

In case of Japan, PCs with pre-installed MS Office is a lot more common. For instance, listing on Bic Camera[0] I do see a lot of them noting that it is pre-installed.

[0]: http://www.biccamera.com/bc/disp/CSfDispListPage_001.jsp?dis...