Comment on Google give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push.

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which sounds like an excellent reason to go through the pain once and replace Excel with something better standardized.

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  • valkyre09@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I work for an MSP. I can assure you, those who believe they need excel to do their job are willing to die on that hill, and take the whole department with them

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Might be less pain in the long term to just let them die on that hill then and replace them when they are gone along with Excel.

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• oakward@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do not really work with excel beyond the basics. Why can’t free solutions like libre office and open office replace excel?

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  • pineapplepizza@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because MS made non standard functions to force lockin. You can’t even go from desktop app to web versions of excel without breaking things

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The government should just use libre office

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