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Excel is the king of financial models - nothing else compares and that is going to be exceptionally difficult to mount a competitive product against it. For ev

• MajimasEyepatch 4y ago
  Google Sheets managed to find an interesting niche by offering a) good spreadsheets in the browser and b) live multiplayer. But even that hasn't completely replaced Excel. It has kind of surprised me that Excel doesn't seem to have copied the multiplayer aspects of Google Sheets (or if it has, it doesn't seem to have taken off). I've worked for several companies that use Google Workspace for most things, but they still have Office subscriptions for most users so they can use Excel in addition to Sheets.
  • WastingMyTime89 4y ago
    > It has kind of surprised me that Excel doesn't seem to have copied the multiplayer aspects of Google Sheets (or if it has, it doesn't seem to have taken off). It did and it has. All documents stored in Microsoft cloud can be edited by multiple people at once including excel spreadsheets and now that most company documents live in Teams, it’s very common to edit them at the same time.
    • MajimasEyepatch 4y ago
      Ah, I've never worked anywhere that uses Teams. In recent years, it's been mostly Slack and Google, with Microsoft products mainly used if you need the full power of Excel or if you need to exchange files with other organizations by email.