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This is amazing and much-needed progress for Excel, which I think is arguably one of the greatest software products ever (except perhaps the web browser). Unfo
by Cieplak 8y ago
This is amazing and much-needed progress for Excel, which I think is arguably one of the greatest software products ever (except perhaps the web browser).
Unfortunately for Excel, it’s essential to Microsoft’s product strategy for keeping people on Windows, which means that Excel on other platforms feels almost as if it were sabotaged compared to the “native” experience in Windows. I feel like Excel could really thrive if only it could separate itself from the mothership and focus on its own interests.
- rdiddly 8y agoAbsolutely, and although the end user was the primary focus of this article and perhaps of the effort as a whole, this initiative can't help but have a positive impact on the libraries used by those heretofore nameless "third parties" such as myself who use code to transfer data to/from Excel.
- pjmlp 8y agoActually, it is essential to keep people on Office, Windows is secondary, hence the big push for Office 365 subscriptions. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18187990/microsoft-365-consumer-subscription-satya-nadella-comments https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/18/18187990/microsoft-365-co...