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They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in ou
by adrr 13y ago
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
- josh-wrale 13y agoExcel really has no equal, unfortunately.
- Camillo 13y agoYou could almost say that it... excels.
- sizzle 13y agodid not laugh, 0/10 would not read again.
- smacktoward 13y agoAll you need now is the David Caruso sunglasses and the "YEAAAAAAAAAH".
- pcurve 13y agoYup. Excel is the best IT requirement documentation tool, with its auto-filter and indentation (using columns) Full traceability too. Just look at your emails in Outlook, and tie 'em all together.
- smacktoward 13y agoMake it free for home/educational/personal use then, with liberal definitions of those terms, and keep on charging enterprises. Enterprise licensing is where the money is for a product like Office anyway, and those customers actually prefer having to pay for something over getting the same thing for free. Meanwhile, all those people using the free version will be churning out lots of documents in Office file formats, adding to the value of having a copy of Office around. That in turn makes it more attractive to paying customers.
- nightski 13y agoTBH home/educational/personal use is probably perfectly suited by the office online suite being discussed here. Otherwise I pay like $10 a month for the full office 365 suite, which is rather cheap.
- yeukhon 13y agoIf the employer gives each employee a chromebook instead of a desktop, and tell each employee to get Office on their own, then the employer doesn't have to pay license fee for every employee. I imagine this can reduce the operation cost by a lot.
- JoshTriplett 13y agoThat would violate "for personal use".
- yeukhon 13y agoHow so? I can carry my laptop to my office and use my laptop instead. When I come home I get paged and my boss wants me to read a document. i wouldn't go back to my office just to open a document, would I? If I work for my dad's deli and I need to help him print a price tag I would be "working" for my dad and using my personal Office would violate the policy - but who would pay for a copy? I am self-employed and I use Office at home for both school, self-employed work and for personal use. Personal use is a very grey area - hence why personal edition has missing features.
- haldujai 13y agoIANAL but if you read the EULA: The service/software may not be used for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities. While EULA do not always hold up in court I can't see a reason why this wouldn't hold up. What you should do is VPN into work to do something for your boss. Or even better have a enterprise licensed version on your laptop. Yes you are violating the policy when you work for your dad. Your example of a single, small user violating the EULA is far different than a corporation actively encouraging users to violate the EULA. You may not be worth suing but a company sure is.
- teej 13y agoExcel for Mac is missing a bunch of features and is way less performant than Excel for Windows. I don't blame the guys.