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Excel. There is no other software that can currently fill excel’s role in business. It’s the best at what it does and what it does is usually very important. Un
by conception 2y ago
Excel. There is no other software that can currently fill excel’s role in business. It’s the best at what it does and what it does is usually very important. Unfortunately.
- danaris 2y agoExcel runs just fine on Macs, though, so that only explains "why not Linux?", not "why Windows?"
- xnx 2y agoThe situation might have changed since I last used Excel on Mac, but in 2018, the "Excel" on Mac barely resembled the Excel on Windows. Many obvious and useful features were missing.
- johnbellone 2y agoIt definitely does not run “just fine”. It’s passable at best.
- Digit-Al 2y agoMy guess is that the fact you can buy about two to three cheap Dell desktop machines for the price of one Mac probably factors quite heavily into the equation.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoExcel is the driver for small businesses and individual departments. SharePoint is what keeps large businesses committed to Windows.
- tomrod 2y agoGnumeric, Libreoffice, Google Sheets, Zoho... There are plenty of sufficient replacements for Excel if organizations are willing to work with other tools
- beisner 2y agoIf you’re only doing vacation travel planning, sure. But there’s a long tail of advanced functionality used across all kinds of industries (with plugins upon plugins) that are most certainly not even close to being supported by any of the options proposed.