Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by bonesss on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:32AM (#16686171)

Part of the promise of cloud based document solutions, to my eyes, is being able to replace "edge databases" with user-facing user-editable spreadsheets.

Drain those IT projects of risk, get moving early, with a structure that lets the user guide the data modelling... Could be a nice local minimum :)

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by cm2187 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:21AM (#16686400)

Agree. Well, ideally you would want to give a path for non technical users to do more than spreadsheets. That was the promise of hyper-card, VBA, etc. But that's not the direction of the world anymore, quite the opposite.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by bonesss on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @07:00AM (#16687103)

Totally agree.

Nowadays you have JS to automate Google and MS docs, but 1) Javascript is kinda warty for VBA-type users, 2) API driven javascript is less friendly than the locally-logical VBA-style access, and 3) the mental barriers to entry are much higher than older solutions to the same issues...

In theory we should be approaching data-nirvana for end users. In reality it takes a lot of tech know how to bridge those gaps in the modern Enterprise and you're getting almost no help from the big boys.

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