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Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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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

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[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not developing it further? They are bound to their shortsightedly developed xlsx format and they need to make sure legacy stuff doesn't break... However, the Win11-style redesign is a regression, and the Czech spell checker has been flagging a completely normal verb class as ancient for years, and the heavily-touted Web Sources cannot even parse JSON. They also keep adding shit like Online Images (with Bing), automatic image recognition that I imagine collects shitloads of AI training data and of course support links that only open in Edge even though it works no better than your default browser. I wonder where the prosecutors who brought M$ to court for bundling IE with W95 are today.

[โ€“] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately that case only ended in an order for Microsoft to share its API for at least 5 years and for the DOJ to have full access to MS stuff including source code during this time