Submitted 1 year ago by Aatube@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life off~~ the ~~line
Wow, Microsoft is now copying LibreOffice. Who could have guesses?
The Python bit. The cloud was copied from Google’s suite.
The difference is Microsoft will feed your scripts into training its AI.
Microsoft is stupid, but not too stupid to realize that Excel users are generally tech-illiterate and most of them will produce garbage code.
Does anyone not think Microsoft is going to use all their cloud data for training language models?
“We promise not to” doesn’t seem realistic to me. Proving they used it is impossible.
“We promise not to”
Where did you quote this from? I think they won’t care, just like GitHub Copilot, or it will be an opt-out feature.
Surprising no one. You can’t even autosave files in Office software anymore unless you use OneDrive.
Holy shit Excel is still like it was 20 years ago. And now, when they want to add such a useful feature, it comes with that bag of crap with it? Fucking hell. I know why I switched all non-trivial stuff to python.
Defining reusable functions? Diagrams with parametric ranges? (Only the title can be a cell reference, nothing else) Zooming in diagrams? More than 1 x axis? More than 2 y axis? …
Even a basic thing like XY scatter plots is absolutely terrible. I had made dozens of them before but in 365, when I selected the data and clicked “Scatter Plot”, it refused to assign the left column to X and the right to Y. I fought for 10 minutes with “Chart Series” and then gave up to look up the solution. Also very few trendline functions are available, the default axes look like crap and min/max is broken for logarithmic charts.
Not to mention that one third of all options is in a keyboard-unfriendly, laggy “responsive” UI while the rest is in windows that barely changed since 1995, and are completely missing in the web version. Localization has only become sloppier and you want centimeters rather than inches in Office Online? Fuck you.
Does xlwings require any specific Python installation? Can I use it with my WinPython 3.10 installation on Windows 10?
microsoft ad please remove
Ads generally don’t criticize what they’re selling.
welcome in 2023
lazy social obviously didn’t read the article
Checks out
Havent used excel for like 15 years
Asifall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn they found a way to make python slower
mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl 1 year ago
That made a python interface wrapper arround VB Script.