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My thesis is MS will never go down this path, not because it isn't an excellent idea but because Excel has become inrefactorable.
by kreeben 6y ago
My thesis is MS will never go down this path, not because it isn't an excellent idea but because Excel has become inrefactorable.
- bitwize 6y agoThat's okay, they'll just rewrite it -- largely in JavaScript -- and offer it as a service as part of Microsoft 365. It could then ingest datasets from anywhere in the cloud, even large SQL or MongoDB databases.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> My thesis is MS will never go down this path, not because it isn't an excellent idea but because Excel has become inrefactorable. They’ll just make an optional feature called PowerSomething that is integrated with the Excel UI but mostly a separate tool that interacts with the main Excel system without sharing its limits.