• mortimer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Why is that? Is there just not enough support for exporting existing data across or does Excel have more features?

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      1 month ago

      Every large company has sunk countless hours into training people, designing sheets, writing macros etc. Trying to move all that to a different product would be hugely painful and disruptive to everyday operations, because all of that would have to be redone and relearned. No company is going to do that.

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        1 month ago

        Kind of correct but never say never. There should be a point upcoming where an explosive mixture of MS’ software becoming too enshittified to make any more sense to use, and also too expensive to use (MS wants everyone to have a M365 subscription which they can then increase the prices for all the time), as well as competitor’s growing stronger over the years as well, making them a more and more capable alternative, will result in MS Office losing market share and dominance. Windows is also already on a slow decline, it had around ~90% market share during the Win7 era and since then it’s sliding downhill, at about ~70% right now. Sure it takes many years, decades even, but it’s bound to happen with MS’ current course of action as well as the competition growing better as well.