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To be fair, Excel is pretty much critical infrastructure at this point.
by maest 6y ago
To be fair, Excel is pretty much critical infrastructure at this point.
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoI think that's not true until Office365 kicks in. If Microsoft "goes down" today, just gets wiped out by some futures FX swap gone wrong, then all the Hedge funds, the doctors notes, the airplane checklists, they will pootle along fine for years. It's only when a central single point of failure is introduced does critical infrastructure become ticking time bomb. An open source peer to peer zoom would reduce such risk - and any sensible government would find that - cries of private business be damned
- hnick 6y agoI think there are other cases. An auto-update that goes wrong could still cause wide ranging issues for non-365 Excel users. And if updates are disabled (or MS goes away), we can add yet-to-be-discovered security flaws to the mix. Neither of these would impact all (or maybe even most) users, but I think it'd impact enough to make a dent. In contrast, Office 365 is probably less susceptible to such flaws, trading them for others.