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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Excel dominates the world of number crunching. Want to change that? You can't.

Imagine proposing an alternative for your organization that has been using Excel for two decades. Will every single sheet and workbook translate perfectly? If not, not good enough for dealing with numbers. This is why MS never fucks around with Excel. The risk/reward calculation (heh) is not a fit for open source spreadsheets.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Haha, Microsoft absolutely changes shit all the time. Millions of organisations around the world have an octogenarian computer standing somewhere in a corner because they need it running the old software.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not Excel they don't, not ever. Been working in the office for almost 30 years. Excel does not change except to add tidbits and it's fully backwards compatible. You don't have any experience in this, do you?

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

the world of number crunching

Weird, I've never heard of excel being used on HPC systems

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

In my experience the people relying on Excel cannot be bothered to learn Linux or job scheduling. So instead they get 10-20 thousand dollar dedicated workstations for excel, spss, etc.

Thankfully the newer hires are more flexible.

[-] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not just within your organisation, but imagine trying to share something other than Excel outside of it!

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

CSVs are a common format to share data

[-] Nikelui@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, but data only.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

yup its used alot in chemistry classes for measuring alot of experiments, or if you taken college gen chem you will be using it very often.

[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

That's not very Libre(office) of you there, partner

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