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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by okket on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:21PM (#12373495)
At this point I doubt Microsoft can change the fundamental way how Excel calculates any more, because it would break too many existing workflows, see

https://xkcd.com/1172/

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Re:Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? by sandworm101 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:33PM (#12373537)
Isn't breaking existing workflows their business model? I have yet to see an update from the linux community result in rushed boardroom-level meetings about whether we are ready for the next software mandate or update deadline (win10). For the last few decades, every couple years MS comes out with some new thing that we all have to prepare for as if it were y2k all over again.
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