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Microsoft is lobbying every government department against Linux and LibreOffice (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntSmmry?sMdKy=1687469560259&clientOrgCorpNumber=13088

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[–] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Excel is a wonderful piece of technology, the full capacity of which I don’t even come close to fully utilizing. I can appreciate that as a piece of art, but I can also get everything I need done in libreoffice calc and then I don’t have to support and rely on microsoft.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've worked at some banks quite a few years ago and Excel was basically a cheap application space for them. The cells were inputs/outputs, they used VBA, and COM+ which talked to SQL to perform calculations and all that. It was really weird but every iteration that they wrote to replace Excel (they needed to because of banking auditing regulations) had failed simply due to the features they would get from it. It was wild to see at the time.

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