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Is it just me, but doesn’t it seem like a terrible idea to bake the COPILOT trademark into the name of an Excel function? It could allow Microsoft to threaten
by guidedlight 1y ago
Is it just me, but doesn’t it seem like a terrible idea to bake the COPILOT trademark into the name of an Excel function?
It could allow Microsoft to threaten to use trademark law against competitors who support the Excel file format.
It would also mean Microsoft would need to provide indefinite support for a function name that might not survive more than a few marketing cycles.
- magicalhippo 1y ago> Is it just me, but doesn’t it seem like a terrible idea to bake the COPILOT trademark into the name of an Excel function? You're talking about a product which still to this day thinks it's an excellent idea to have formulas be translated, with no support for the English version in other languages. I switch my Excel to Norwegian and I have to use SUMMER not SUM, and opening any sheet with SUM will just fail to compute. So yes, it's a terrible idea, but it's also an entirely normal Excel thing to do.
- fragmede 1y agoAnd not to forget just how bad Excel is with trying to interpret everything as a date, to the detriment of several fields of science, among other things.
- magicalhippo 1y agoWell I mean, it's a spreadsheet, if it's not a number then surely it's a date. Why else would you put something in a cell? /s At work we have a lot of Excel sheets being sent from customers that are basically data dumps from databases. People export to CSV, open it in Excel (not import), and tada, very convenient. Except now those numerical article numbers are missing all the leading zeros, half the weights are dates and so on... It sure is one enticing hammer...