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>want to find a Microsoft fan? look in accounting I seriously doubt Accounting has Microsoft fans as such. They're very wedded to their tools and workflow in o
by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>want to find a Microsoft fan? look in accounting
I seriously doubt Accounting has Microsoft fans as such. They're very wedded to their tools and workflow in order to do their job because they spend their entire day on email and spreadsheets. Take away those and replace them with crippled alternatives like only Excel on the web, and they'll still hate it even if made by Microsoft.
How would a developer react if one day their vim editor was removed and replaced by EMACS or vice versa because of a mandate from the CEO?
- quanticle 13y agoNo, it's worse than that. At least Emacs is roughly on par, in terms of capability. Replacing Excel with Google Docs Spreadsheets is like replacing vim with Notepad.
- rbanffy 13y agoMaybe in accounting (who should have better tools, anyway) Excel is irreplaceable, but most other Excel users make all kinds of idiotic tables with it, all of them without even a single mathematical operation. And that's to say nothing on the idiocy when those users decide they are empowered by their tools and decide they'll do math with them. I've seen more than one case where the AVG function was replaced with SUM and COUNT.