Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 2 months ago
In just see no alternative to Microsofts Office tools. I think 99% of all companies in Western world rely on Microsoft office.
There is no real alternative to Excel, that’s the killer app. Anyone arguing differently hasn’t got the corporate experience to argue.
Doesn’t even matter if an alternate is better, and none are, it’s about rock-solid compatibility and knowing your sheets and books will still work in 20-years.
MS fucks about with OS updates, but notice that they never break Excel? (or Word or PowerPoint for that matter)
Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.
Of course there are alternatives to Excel. Anyone pretending otherwise has only worked at a few places and is generalizing with great but mistaken confidence.
But even if there weren’t, think about those companies living on the edge of one software breakdown. There’s a word for that: brittle. Meh, YOLO.
ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
technically libreoffice exists, they really need to fix office comparability though
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, they just need to enforce PDFs for things that leave an office so everyone else isn’t locked into loading and running a bloated mess just to view a read-only spreadsheet.
The analogue to the printed chart isn’t an XLS6 attached to e-mail. It’s a PDF.
That’s it. Done.
turnip@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’d prefer a Wiki style software that exports to PDF. Why aren’t we all using wiki’s, with build in version control and diagramming, like Confluence, Youtrack, etc…?
ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Then, you’ll get people whinging that they need Adobe Acrobat Professional in order to edit the PDFs!
Something something leading a horse to water
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve never had compatibility issues. Of course many people have, but a lot of the time people are blindly speculating about potential badness.