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You wouldn’t believe the number of workflows hardcoded to Excel and Outlook. Those two products alone guarantee that Office is here to stay for years.
by blowski 9y ago
You wouldn’t believe the number of workflows hardcoded to Excel and Outlook. Those two products alone guarantee that Office is here to stay for years.
- adwhit 9y agoFor sure. I've seen complete trading systems written in Excel macros. MS have played their hand very astutely and have managed to capture a large fraction of the enormous gap between cost-to-producer and value-to-user. Keeping things that way is worth $100bn market cap to them, and challenging them is worth relative peanuts to anyone else. Of course they're going to win every time. Our best hope is that someone like Google pours money into a fully-compatible fully-featured desktop replacement out of sheer spite.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoNot even MS products from the Office are fully compatible with each other - I've seen issues with documents produced by older Offices being mangled in newer ones (compounded by locale differences). DOC/DOCX compatibility across different products is a tire fire, there is no solution on the horizon.