• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    Excel dominates the world of number crunching. Want to change that? You can’t.

    Imagine proposing an alternative for your organization that has been using Excel for two decades. Will every single sheet and workbook translate perfectly? If not, not good enough for dealing with numbers. This is why MS never fucks around with Excel. The risk/reward calculation (heh) is not a fit for open source spreadsheets.

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      Haha, Microsoft absolutely changes shit all the time. Millions of organisations around the world have an octogenarian computer standing somewhere in a corner because they need it running the old software.

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        Not Excel they don’t, not ever. Been working in the office for almost 30 years. Excel does not change except to add tidbits and it’s fully backwards compatible. You don’t have any experience in this, do you?

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      the world of number crunching

      Weird, I’ve never heard of excel being used on HPC systems

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      Not just within your organisation, but imagine trying to share something other than Excel outside of it!